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Exact Match:

moderate

not extreme; "a moderate penalty"; "temperate in his response to criticism"

being within reasonable or average limits; not excessive or extreme; "moderate prices"; "a moderate income"; "a moderate fine"; "moderate demands"; "a moderate estimate"; "a moderate eater"; "moderate success"; "a kitchen of moderate size"; "the X-ray showed moderate enlargement of the heart"

marked by avoidance of extravagance or extremes; "moderate in his demands"; "restrained in his response"

make less fast or intense; "moderate your speed"

preside over; "John moderated the discussion"

Synonyms:

• K,
• Laodicean,
• abate,
• acceptable,
• accepting,
• act between,
• adequate,
• adjust to,
• admissible,
• all right,
• allay,
• alleviate,
• alter,
• ambling,
• apathetic,
• arbitrate,
• arrest,
• assuage,
• attemper,
• average,
• backpedal,
• backwater,
• balanced,
• banal,
• bank the fire,
• bargain,
• better than nothing,
• betwixt and between,
• bland,
• blunt,
• bound,
• box in,
• brake,
• budget,
• calm,
• cautious,
• center,
• central,
• centrist,
• chair,
• chasten,
• cheap,
• check,
• circumscribe,
• circumspect,
• claudicant,
• clement,
• clip the wings,
• common,
• compassionate,
• compromiser,
• condition,
• confine,
• conservative,
• constant,
• constrain,
• contain,
• control,
• controlled,
• cool,
• coordinate,
• copyright,
• crawling,
• creeping,
• creeping like snail,
• curb,
• cushion,
• damp,
• dampen,
• de-emphasize,
• deaden,
• decelerate,
• decent,
• decrease,
• defuse,
• delay,
• deliberate,
• detain,
• diminish,
• direct,
• discipline,
• discreet,
• downplay,
• draw rein,
• draw the line,
• dull,
• ease,
• ease off,
• ease up,
• easy,
• easygoing,
• ebb,
• economic,
• economy,
• equable,
• even,
• extenuate,
• fair,
• fair to middling,
• fairish,
• fall,
• faltering,
• fifty-fifty,
• flagging,
• foot-dragging,
• forbearant,
• forbearing,
• forgiving,
• frugal,
• gentle,
• go between,
• good enough,
• goodish,
• gradual,
• grave,
• half-and-half,
• halting,
• hedge,
• hedge about,
• hobbled,
• hobbling,
• hold back,
• hold in check,
• hold up,
• humane,
• idle,
• impartial,
• impede,
• inconsequential,
• inconsiderable,
• independent,
• indifferent,
• indolent,
• inexpensive,
• insipid,
• intercede,
• intermediary,
• intermediate,
• interpose,
• intervene,
• judge,
• judicious,
• keep back,
• keep within bounds,
• lackluster,
• languid,
• languorous,
• lax,
• lay,
• lazy,
• leaven,
• leisurely,
• lenient,
• lenify,
• lessen,
• let down,
• let up,
• let up on,
• lighten,
• limit,
• limping,
• lose ground,
• lose momentum,
• lose speed,
• low,
• low-priced,
• lumbering,
• make terms,
• manage,
• manageable,
• mean,
• measured,
• medial,
• median,
• mediate,
• mediocre,
• medium,
• meet halfway,
• merciful,
• middle,
• middle-of-the-road,
• middle-of-the-roader,
• middling,
• midway,
• mild,
• mild as milk,
• mitigate,
• moderantist,
• moderationist,
• moderatist,
• modest,
• modify,
• modulate,
• mollify,
• namby-pamby,
• narrow,
• negotiate,
• neuter,
• neutral,
• nominal,
• nonaligned,
• noncommitted,
• nonpartisan,
• nonviolent,
• normal,
• not amiss,
• not bad,
• not half bad,
• not so bad,
• obstruct,
• obtund,
• of a kind,
• of a sort,
• of sorts,
• okay,
• on the fence,
• ordinary,
• pacifistic,
• palliate,
• paltry,
• passable,
• passive,
• patent,
• patient,
• peaceable,
• peaceful,
• piddling,
• play down,
• poking,
• poky,
• presentable,
• preside over,
• pretty good,
• prudent,
• qualify,
• rational,
• reasonable,
• reduce,
• reduce the temperature,
• reef,
• referee,
• register,
• regulate,
• regulate by,
• rein in,
• relax,
• relaxed,
• relent,
• relieve,
• reluctant,
• remit,
• represent,
• respectable,
• restrain,
• restrained,
• restrict,
• retard,
• routine,
• run,
• satisfactory,
• sauntering,
• scant,
• season,
• sedate,
• sensible,
• serious,
• set back,
• set conditions,
• set limits,
• shabby,
• shoddy,
• shuffling,
• slack,
• slack off,
• slack up,
• slacken,
• slight,
• slothful,
• slow,
• slow as death,
• slow as molasses,
• slow as slow,
• slow down,
• slow up,
• slow-crawling,
• slow-foot,
• slow-going,
• slow-legged,
• slow-moving,
• slow-paced,
• slow-poky,
• slow-running,
• slow-sailing,
• slow-stepped,
• sluggish,
• small,
• smother,
• snail-paced,
• snaillike,
• so-so,
• sober,
• sober down,
• sober-minded,
• sobersided,
• soft,
• soft-shell,
• soften,
• solemn,
• soothe,
• sparing,
• specialize,
• staggering,
• staid,
• standard,
• stay,
• steady,
• step in,
• stifle,
• stint,
• stinting,
• straiten,
• strolling,
• subdue,
• subside,
• sufficient,
• supervise,
• suppress,
• take in sail,
• tame,
• tedious,
• temper,
• temperate,
• tender,
• tentative,
• third-force,
• third-world,
• throttle down,
• tidy,
• toddling,
• token,
• tolerable,
• tolerant,
• tone down,
• tortoiselike,
• tottering,
• treat with,
• trifling,
• trivial,
• trudging,
• tune down,
• turtlelike,
• umpire,
• uncommitted,
• underplay,
• unexceptionable,
• unexceptional,
• unexcessive,
• unexpensive,
• unextreme,
• unhurried,
• unimpassioned,
• uninvolved,
• unobjectionable,
• usual,
• vapid,
• waddling,
• wane,
• weaken,
• wishy-washy,
• within means,
• workmanlike,
• worth the money