IMMODERATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does immoderate mean? 

• IMMODERATE (adjective)
  The adjective IMMODERATE has 1 sense:

1. beyond reasonable limits

  Familiarity information: IMMODERATE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IMMODERATE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Beyond reasonable limits

Context example:

immoderate spending

Similar:

abnormal (much greater than the normal)

all-fired (extreme)

exaggerated; overdone; overstated (represented as greater than is true or reasonable)

excessive; inordinate; undue; unreasonable (beyond normal limits)

exorbitant; extortionate; outrageous; steep; unconscionable; usurious (greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation)

extraordinary; over-the-top; sinful (far more than usual or expected)

extreme (far beyond a norm in quantity or amount or degree; to an utmost degree)

extreme (beyond a norm in views or actions)

extremist; radical; ultra ((used of opinions and actions) far beyond the norm)

far (beyond a norm in opinion or actions)

stark (complete or extreme)

Also:

intense (possessing or displaying a distinctive feature to a heightened degree)

unreasonable (not reasonable; not showing good judgment)

intemperate (excessive in behavior)

Attribute:

moderateness; moderation (quality of being moderate and avoiding extremes)

Antonym:

moderate (being within reasonable or average limits; not excessive or extreme)

Derivation:

immoderateness (the quality of being excessive and lacking in moderation)

 Context examples 

By an observation, we found ourselves in the latitude of 30 degrees 2 minutes south. Twelve of our crew were dead by immoderate labour and ill food; the rest were in a very weak condition.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

“Do you think, Victor,” said he, “that I do not suffer also? No one could love a child more than I loved your brother”—tears came into his eyes as he spoke—“but is it not a duty to the survivors that we should refrain from augmenting their unhappiness by an appearance of immoderate grief?

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

So Peggotty said; but I am afraid the chat was all on her own side, and of immoderate length, as she was very difficult indeed to stop, God bless her! when she had me for her theme.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)