n. 25B6; adjective
moderate success : AVERAGE, modest, medium, middling, ordinary, common, commonplace, everyday, workaday; tolerable, passable, adequate, fair; mediocre, indifferent, unexceptional, unremarkable, run-of-the-mill; informal OK, so-so, bog-standard, fair-to-middling, (plain) vanilla, no great shakes, not up to much; NZ informal half-pie.
moderate prices : REASONABLE, acceptable; inexpensive, low, fair, modest.
moderate views : MIDDLE-OF-THE-ROAD, non-extreme, non-radical.
moderate behaviour : RESTRAINED, controlled, sober; tolerant, lenient.
great, unreasonable, extreme.
25B6; verb
the wind has moderated : DIE DOWN, abate, let up, calm down, lessen, decrease, diminish; recede, weaken, subside.
you can help to moderate her anger : CURB, control, check, temper, restrain, subdue; repress, tame, lessen, decrease, lower, reduce, diminish, alleviate, allay, appease, assuage, ease, soothe, calm, tone down; archaic remit.
the Speaker moderates the assembly : CHAIR, take the chair of, preside over.
increase.