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English

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

  • Adjective, noun:
    • (UK): IPA(key): /ˈmɒdəɹət/
    • (US): enPR: mäd'ər-ət, IPA(key): /ˈmɑdəɹət/
  • Audio (US), adjective and noun(file)
  • Verb:
    • (UK): IPA(key): /ˈmɒdəɹeɪt/
    • (US): enPR: mäd'ə-rāt, IPA(key): /ˈmɑdəɹeɪt/
  • Audio (US), verb(file)

Adjective

moderate (comparative more moderate, superlative most moderate)

  1. Not excessive; acting in moderation
    moderate language
    a moderate Calvinist
    travelling at a moderate speed
  2. (pathology) more than mild, less than severe
  3. Mediocre
  4. Average priced; standard-deal
  5. 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
  6. (US, politics) Having an intermediate position between liberal and conservative.

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Noun

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moderate (plural moderates)

  1. 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.
  2. (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.

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Verb

moderate (third-person singular simple present moderates, present participle moderating, simple past and past participle moderated)

  1. (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.
  2. (intransitive) To become less excessive
  3. (transitive) To preside over (something) as a moderator
    to moderate a synod
  4. (intransitive) To act as a moderator; to assist in bringing to compromise
  5. (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

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German

Pronunciation

Adjective

moderate

  1. inflection of moderat:
    1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
    2. strong nominative/accusative plural
    3. weak nominative all-gender singular
    4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

moderate

  1. inflection of moderare:
    1. second-person plural present indicative
    2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

moderate f pl

  1. feminine plural of moderato

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Latin

Verb

moderāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of moderō

References

  • “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

Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

moderate

  1. definite singular of moderat
  2. plural of moderat

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

moderate

  1. definite singular of moderat
  2. plural of moderat

Spanish

Verb

moderate

  1. second-person singular voseo imperative of moderar combined with te
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