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IMMODERATELY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does immoderately mean? 

IMMODERATELY (adverb)
  The adverb IMMODERATELY has 2 senses:

1. without moderation; in an immoderate mannerplay

2. to a degree that exceeds the bounds or reason or moderationplay

  Familiarity information: IMMODERATELY used as an adverb is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


IMMODERATELY (adverb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Without moderation; in an immoderate manner

Context example:

he eats immoderately

Antonym:

moderately (with moderation; in a moderate manner)

Pertainym:

immoderate (beyond reasonable limits)


Sense 2

Meaning:

To a degree that exceeds the bounds or reason or moderation

Synonyms:

immoderately; unreasonably

Context example:

his prices are unreasonably high

Antonym:

moderately (to certain extent or degree)

Pertainym:

immoderate (beyond reasonable limits)


 Context examples 


Now you may eat, though still not immoderately.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

But you men are all so immoderately lazy!

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

I am taken home in a sad plight, and I have beef-steaks put to my eyes, and am rubbed with vinegar and brandy, and find a great puffy place bursting out on my upper lip, which swells immoderately.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He laughed most immoderately.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Do you know, I get so immoderately sick of Bath; your brother and I were agreeing this morning that, though it is vastly well to be here for a few weeks, we would not live here for millions.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

But when I asked her she laughed immoderately, repeated my question aloud and told me she lived with a girl friend at a hotel.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)



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