1. moderate - Noun
2. moderate - Adjective
3. moderate - Verb
4. moderate - Adjective Satellite
Kept within due bounds; observing reasonable limits; not excessive, extreme, violent, or rigorous; limited; restrained
Limited in quantity; sparing; temperate; frugal; as, moderate in eating or drinking; a moderate table.
Limited in degree of activity, energy, or excitement; reasonable; calm; slow; as, moderate language; moderate endeavors.
Not extreme in opinion, in partisanship, and the like; as, a moderate Calvinist.
Not violent or rigorous; temperate; mild; gentle; as, a moderate winter.
Limited as to degree of progress; as, to travel at moderate speed.
Limited as to the degree in which a quality, principle, or faculty appears; as, an infusion of moderate strength; a man of moderate abilities.
Limited in scope or effects; as, a reformation of a moderate kind.
One of a party in the Church of Scotland in the 18th century, and part of the 19th, professing moderation in matters of church government, in discipline, and in doctrine.
To restrain from excess of any kind; to reduce from a state of violence, intensity, or excess; to keep within bounds; to make temperate; to lessen; to allay; to repress; to temper; to qualify; as, to moderate rage, action, desires, etc.; to moderate heat or wind.
To preside over, direct, or regulate, as a public meeting; as, to moderate a synod.
To become less violent, severe, rigorous, or intense; as, the wind has moderated.
To preside as a moderator.
Source: Webster's dictionaryProbably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures. Theodore Roosevelt
Manifold subsequent experience has led to a truer appreciation and a more moderate estimate of the importance of the dependence of one living being upon another. Richard Owen
Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others. Alexander Hamilton
Moderate profits fill the purse. Italian Proverb
Great wealth is a gift from heaven; moderate wealth results from frugality. Chinese Proverb
If doctors fail thee, be these three thy doctors--Rest, cheerfulness, and moderate diet. Latin Proverb