Usually means: Not excessive, not too little.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. moderate: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. moderate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. moderate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. moderate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. moderate: Vocabulary.com
  6. Moderate, moderate: Wordnik
  7. moderate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. moderate: Wiktionary
  9. moderate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. moderate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. moderate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. moderate: Dictionary.com
  13. moderate (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. moderate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Moderate (politics), Moderate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Moderate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. moderate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. moderate: Rhymezone
  19. moderate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. moderate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. moderate: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. moderate: Free Dictionary
  23. moderate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. moderate: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Moderate (politics), moderate: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. moderate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Moderate (politics), moderate: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Political (No longer online)

(Note: See moderated as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Not excessive; acting in moderation
adjective:  (pathology) more than mild, less than severe
adjective:  Mediocre
adjective:  Average priced; standard-deal
adjective:  Not violent or rigorous; temperate; mild; gentle.
adjective:  (US, politics) Having an intermediate position between liberal and conservative.
noun:  One who holds an intermediate position between extremes, as in politics.
noun:  (Christianity, historical) 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.
verb:  (transitive) To reduce the excessiveness of (something).
verb:  (intransitive) To become less excessive.
verb:  (transitive) To preside over (something) as a moderator.
verb:  (intransitive) To act as a moderator; to assist in bringing to compromise.
verb:  (transitive, physics) To supply with a moderator (substance that decreases the speed of neutrons in a nuclear reactor and hence increases likelihood of fission).

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