Immoderate \Im*mod"er*ate\, a. [L. immoderatus; pref. im- not +
moderatus moderate. See Moderate.]
Not moderate; exceeding just or usual and suitable bounds;
excessive; extravagant; unreasonable; as, immoderate demands;
immoderate grief; immoderate laughter.
[1913 Webster]
So every scope by the immoderate use
Turns to restraint. --Shak.
Syn: Excessive; exorbitant; unreasonable; extravagant;
intemperate; inordinate.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
immoderate
adj : not within reasonable limits; "immoderate laughter";
"immoderate spending" [ant: moderate]
WordNet (r) 2.0
121 Moby Thesaurus words for "immoderate":
a bit much, abandoned, acute, bibulous, boundless, crapulent,
crapulous, cutthroat, cutting, dizzy, drastic, egregious, enormous,
exacting, exaggerated, excessive, exorbitant, extortionate,
extravagant, extreme, fabulous, fancy, fierce, furious, gigantic,
gluttonous, go-go, gouging, great, grossly overpriced, high,
hyperbolic, hypertrophied, incontinent, indulgent, inflationary,
inordinate, intemperate, intense, irrepressible, keen, lax,
licentious, loose, monstrous, nonrestrictive, out of bounds,
out of control, out of hand, out of sight, outrageous, overbig,
overdeveloped, overgreat, overgrown, overindulgent, overindulging,
overlarge, overmuch, overpriced, overweening, permissive, piercing,
preposterous, prodigal, prohibitive, rampant, reinless, rigorous,
riotous, rough, self-indulgent, severe, sharp, skyrocketing,
spiraling, splitting, steep, stiff, swinish, too much, tough,
towering, unbridled, unchecked, uncoerced, uncompelled,
unconscionable, unconstrained, uncontrolled, uncurbed,
undisciplined, undue, unforced, unfrugal, ungoverned, uninhibited,
unlimited, unmastered, unmeasurable, unmeasured, unmuzzled,
unreasonable, unreined, unrepressed, unreserved, unrestrained,
unrestrictive, unruly, unsubdued, unsuppressed, untempered,
unthrifty, unwarranted, usurious, vehement, venomous, violent,
virulent, wanton, wild
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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