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From Middle English moderat, from Latin moderātus, perfect active participle of moderor (“regulate, restrain, moderate”), from moder-, modes-, a stem appearing also in modestus (“moderate, discreet, modest”), from modus (“measure”); see mode and modest. Doublet of moderato. Displaced native Old English ġemetlīċ (“moderate”) and metegian (“to moderate”).
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moderate (comparative more moderate, superlative most moderate)
- Not excessive; acting in moderation
moderate language
a moderate Calvinist
travelling at a moderate speed
- (pathology) more than mild, less than severe
- Mediocre
- Average priced; standard-deal
- Not violent or rigorous; temperate; mild; gentle.
a moderate winter
1859, Arthur Hugh Clough, Life of Sertorius:
These are called the Islands of the Blest; rains fall there seldom, and in moderate showers, but for the most part they have gentle breezes, bringing along with them soft dews
- (US, politics) Having an intermediate position between liberal and conservative.
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- See also Thesaurus:intermediate
not excessive
- Arabic: مُعْتَدِل (muʕtadil)
- Azerbaijani: mötədil
- Belarusian: памярко́ўны (pamjarkóŭny), уме́раны (umjérany), уме́рны (umjérny), ме́рны (mjérny), стры́маны (strýmany) (restrained, reserved)
- Bulgarian: уме́рен (bg) (uméren)
- Catalan: moderat (ca)
- Chinese:
- Czech: mírný (cs), umírněný (cs)
- Dutch: gematigd (nl), matig (nl)
- Finnish: maltillinen (fi), kohtuullinen (fi), kohtalainen (fi), vaatimaton (fi)
- French: modéré (fr)
- Galician: moderado
- Georgian: ზომიერი (zomieri)
- German: moderat (de), mäßig (de), gemäßigt (de)
- Greek:
- Ancient: μέτριος (métrios)
- Hebrew: מתון (he) (matún)
- Hungarian: mérsékelt (hu)
- Irish: réasúnta
- Italian: moderato (it)
- Japanese: 適度な (ja) (てきどな, tekido na)
- Kazakh: орташа (ortaşa)
- Korean: 적당하다 (ko) (jeokdanghada)
- Latin: modicus, modestus
- Macedonian: умерен (umeren)
- Norman: modéthé
- Norwegian:
- Occitan: moderat (oc)
- Old English: ġemetlīċ
- Persian: معتدل (fa) (mo'tadel)
- Polish: umiarkowany (pl)
- Portuguese: moderado (pt)
- Romanian: moderat (ro)
- Russian: уме́ренный (ru) (umérennyj), сде́ржанный (ru) (sdéržannyj) (restrained, reserved)
- Scottish Gaelic: cuibheasach
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: mierny, umiernený
- Slovene: zmeren
- Spanish: moderado (es), comedido (es)
- Swedish: måttlig (sv), moderat (sv)
- Tajik: мӯътадил (tg) (müʾtadil)
- Thai: ปานกลาง (th), พอประมาณ (th)
- Ukrainian: вимірни́й (vymirnýj), помі́рний (pomírnyj), помірко́ваний (pomirkóvanyj), зде́ржаний (zdéržanyj) (restrained, reserved)
- Vietnamese: vừa phải, phải chăng (vi)
mediocre
- Belarusian: пасрэ́дны (pasrédny), пасрэ́дні (pasrédni)
- Bulgarian: посре́дствен (bg) (posrédstven)
- Catalan: moderat (ca)
- Chinese:
- Dutch: middelmatig (nl), matig (nl), doorsnee (nl)
- Finnish: keskinkertainen (fi)
- French: modéré (fr) m
- Galician: mediocre (gl) m or f
- German: mittelmäßig (de), mäßig (de)
- Italian: modesto (it)
- Latin: mediocris (la)
- Norman: modéthé
- Romanian: mediocru (ro) m or n, mediocră f, mijlociu (ro) m or n, mijlocie (ro) f, mediu (ro) m or n
- Russian: посре́дственный (ru) (posrédstvennyj), зауря́дный (ru) (zaurjádnyj), сре́дний (ru) (srédnij)
- Spanish: mediocre (es)
- Thai: พอใช้ (pɔɔ-chái)
- Ukrainian: посере́дній (poserédnij), сере́дній (serédnij), аби́який (uk) (abýjakyj)
moderate (plural moderates)
- One who holds an intermediate position between extremes, as in politics.
While the moderates usually propose political compromise, it's often only achieved when the extremists allow them so
The moderates are the natural advocates of ecumenism against the fanatics of their churches.
2022 June 29, Christian Wolmar, “Strike settlement held back by ministers”, in RAIL, number 960, page 43:
On the other side, RMT General Secretary Mick Lynch (a moderate) has to contend with the hardliners on his executive, whose intentions go way beyond trying to sort out their members' terms and conditions.
- (Christianity, historical) One of a party in Scottish Church history dominant in the 18th century, lax in doctrine and discipline, but intolerant of evangelicalism and popular rights. It caused the secessions of 1733 and 1761, and its final resultant was the Disruption of 1843.
moderate (third-person singular simple present moderates, present participle moderating, simple past and past participle moderated)
- (transitive) To reduce the excessiveness of (something)
to moderate rage, action, desires, etc.
1731, John Arbuthnot, An Essay Concerning the Nature of Aliments, and the Choice of Them, According to the Different Constitutions of Human Bodies. […], 1st Irish edition, Dublin: […] S. Powell, for George Risk, […], George Ewing, […], and William Smith, […], →OCLC:
By its astringent Quality, it moderates the relaxing quality of warm Water.
2000, Paul G. Coleman, Positron Beams and Their Applications, page 309:
This leaves two strategies to increase the current in a positron beam. First is to provide a stronger positron source and second is to develop a more efficient method to moderate the source positrons into a monoenergetic beam.
- (intransitive) To become less excessive
- (transitive) To preside over (something) as a moderator
to moderate a synod
- (intransitive) To act as a moderator; to assist in bringing to compromise
- (transitive, physics) To supply with a moderator (substance that decreases the speed of neutrons in a nuclear reactor and hence increases likelihood of fission).
a graphite-moderated reactor
to reduce the excessiveness
to preside over as a moderator
- “moderate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “moderate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
moderate
- inflection of moderat:
moderate
- inflection of moderare:
moderate f pl
moderāte
- “moderate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “moderate”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
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- second-person singular voseo imperative of moderar combined with te