Reverse Dictionary: MODERATE

ADJECTIVES
– AFTERGAIT tolerable, moderate, what does not exceed …Bk1898 Sc.
– I-METE † moderate; meet, fit, appropriate …c1175
– MEETERLY moderate, in a fair state, middling …1684 Eng. dial.
– METER moderate …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– METHEFUL † restrained, moderate; gentle, mild …c1000 obs.
– MIDDLEMISH moderate, middling; not liberal …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– MIDDLEMOST moderate, not liberal …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– MIDDLINGISH moderate, fair, tolerable …1878 Eng. dial.
– MIDDLING-SIZED moderate in size …1892 Eng. dial.
– ORDINATE † observant of order; keeping within orderly limits; orderly, regular, moderate, temperate …c1374

ADVERBS
– FAIR † moderately, not excessively …c1450
– FAIR AND MODERATE fairly and moderately …1891 Sc.
– FAIRLINGS moderately, fairly …1877 Eng. dial.
– GAILIES tolerably, moderately or fairly well …1742 Sc.
– GAILINS tolerably, moderately or fairly well …1853 Sc.
– GAILY tolerably, fairly, moderately; very, very well, very much …1553 chiefly Sc. & Eng. dial.
– MEASURELY in moderation, moderately …1887 Sc.
– MEETERLY tolerably, moderately, fairly …1703 Eng. dial.
– MEEVERLY moderately, tolerably, middling; fairly well in health; easily, gently …1790 Eng. dial.
– METERLY tolerably, moderately, fairly …1703 Eng. dial.
– MEVERLY moderately, tolerably, middling; fairly well in health; easily, gently …1860 Eng. dial.
– MIDDLING moderately, tolerably, fairly …1765
– MIDDLINGISH somewhat; moderately …1820 Eng. dial. & colloq.
– MIDDLINGLY moderately, not perfectly …1867 Sc. & Eng. dial.

NOUNS
1382 ► MANNERNESS moderation → obs.
1574 ► MEDIOCRITURE moderation; moderateness of quantity, amount, degree → obs.
1641 ► MEASURE moderation → Sc.

NOUNS, PERSON
1531 ► MODERATRICE a female moderator → obs.
1577 ► MODERATRIX a female moderator
1601 ► MODERATRESS a female moderator
1609 ► ABATER one who mitigates or moderates
1716 ► MODERATION-MONGER a professor of moderation; used contemptuously

VERBS
1340 ► ADMEASURE to assign a measure or limit to a thing; to moderate, to limit, to control → obs.
1589 ► PULL IN ONE’S HORNS to moderate or retract one’s behaviour → sl.
1678 ► PALLIATE to moderate the hostility of → obs.
1934 ► PULL YOUR PUNCHES to exercise moderation, esp. in punishment or blame → UK sl.
1940 ► PULL IN ONE’S EARS to be less aggressive; to moderate oneself → Amer. sl.