The adjective and noun are pronounced /mɒdərət/. The verb is pronounced /mɒdəreɪt/.
( moderated)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
Moderate political opinions or policies are not extreme.
He was an easygoing man of very moderate views...
Both countries have called for a moderate approach to the use of force.
≠ extreme
ADJ
2.
You use moderate to describe people or groups who have moderate political opinions or policies.
...a moderate Democrat.
...the moderate wing of the army.
ADJ
•
A moderate is someone with moderate political opinions.
If he presents himself as a radical he risks scaring off the moderates.
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3.
You use moderate to describe something that is neither large nor small in amount or degree.
While a moderate amount of stress can be beneficial, too much stress can exhaust you.
...moderate exercise.
= reasonable
≠ excessive
ADJ : usu ADJ n
• mod‧er‧ate‧ly
Both are moderately large insects...
I don’t smoke and I drink only moderately.
= reasonably
ADV : usu ADV adj / -ed , also ADV after v
4.
A moderate change in something is a change that is not great.
Most drugs offer either no real improvement or, at best, only moderate improvements.
ADJ
• mod‧er‧ate‧ly
Share prices on the Tokyo Exchange declined moderately.
ADV : ADV after v
5.
If you moderate something or if it moderates , it becomes less extreme or violent and easier to deal with or accept.
They are hoping that once in office he can be persuaded to moderate his views...
Amongst relief workers, the immediate sense of crisis has moderated somewhat...
VERB : V n , V
• mod‧era‧tion
A moderation in food prices helped to offset the first increase in energy prices.
N-UNCOUNT : oft N of/in n