| 单词 | immoderate |
| 释义 | immoderate (once / 3389 pages) adj Something that goes way overboard or is excessive is immoderate. Immoderate exercise can lead to pulled muscles and sprains. If someone's behavior is unreasonable or extreme, you can call it immoderate. Immoderate spending results in arms full of shopping bags and a whole lot of credit card debt, and immoderate eating at a huge breakfast buffet can give you a stomach ache for the rest of the day. Immoderate is the opposite of the adjective moderate, which means calm or restrained. Both words have the same Latin root, moderatus, "within bounds, or observing moderation." WORD FAMILYimmoderate: immoderately, immoderateness, immoderation+/moderate: immoderate, moderated, moderately, moderateness, moderates, moderating, moderation, moderatism, moderator/moderated: unmoderated/moderation: moderationism, moderationist, moderations/moderator: moderators, moderatorship USAGE EXAMPLESOn the one hand, the industry insists it is not promoting immoderate drinking among women. Washington Times(Dec 30, 2016) We backed moderate Syrian rebels, but not as seriously or as generously as the immoderate Syrian rebels were backed. Washington Post(Dec 15, 2016) And yet while Dylan’s lyrical gift is wild, copious, and immoderate, Cohen’s is precise, supplicatory and cloistral. The Guardian(Nov 19, 2016) adj beyond reasonable limits immoderate laughter immoderate spending Syn|Ant intense possessing or displaying a distinctive feature to a heightened degree abnormalmuch greater than the normal all-firedextreme; used as an intensifier exaggerated, overdone, overstatedrepresented as greater than is true or reasonable excessive, inordinate, undue, unreasonablebeyond normal limits exorbitant, extortionate, outrageous, steep, unconscionable, usuriousgreatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation extraordinary, over-the-top, sinfulfar more than usual or expected extremefar beyond a norm in quantity or amount or degree; to an utmost degree extremebeyond a norm in views or actions extremist, radical, ultra(used of opinions and actions) far beyond the norm farbeyond a norm in opinion or actions starkcomplete or extreme unreasonablenot reasonable; not showing good judgment intemperateexcessive in behavior moderate being within reasonable or average limits; not excessive or extreme mildmoderate in type or degree or effect or force; far from extreme average, intermediate, mediumaround the middle of a scale of evaluation cautious, conservativeavoiding excess fair, fairish, reasonablenot excessive or extreme indifferentneither too great nor too little limitednot excessive middle-of-the-roadnot extreme, especially in political views minimalistadvocating minimal reforms (as in government or politics) modest, smallnot large but sufficient in size or amount temperatenot extreme in behavior |
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