moderate

About 19.77 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Not excessive; acting in moderation.

   moderate language

2. adjective More than mild but less than severe.
3. adjective Mediocre.
4. adjective Average or middling, for example in price.
5. adjective Not violent or rigorous; temperate; mild; gentle.

   a moderate winter

6. adjective Having an intermediate position between liberal and conservative.
7. noun One who holds an intermediate position between extremes, as in politics.

   While the moderates usually propose political compromise, it's often only achieved when the extremists allow them so

8. noun One of a party in Scottish Church history dominant in the 18th century, lax in doctrine and discipline, but intolerant of evangelicalism and popular rights. It caused the secessions of 1733 and 1761, and its final resultant was the Disruption of 1843.

Similar words

temperate moderationist mild soften hold in small tone down fairish limited cautious

Often followed by

and to in or the size amount degree heat

Word family

moderated moderateness moderatenesses moderates moderating moderation moderations