Immoderate

Definition: Immoderate

Immoderate

Adjective

1. Not within reasonable limits; "immoderate laughter"; "immoderate spending".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "immoderate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Etymology: Immoderate \Im*mod"er*ate\, adjective. [Latin expression immoderatus; prefix im- not moderatus moderate. See Moderate.]. (references)

Synonyms: Immoderate

Crosswords: Immoderate

Books

• Diana Vreeland: Immoderate Style (reference)

• The Immoderate Past: The Southern Writer and History (reference)

• The Mountain of Immoderate Desires (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Twelve of our crew were dead by immoderate labor and ill food, the rest were in a very weak condition

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Albanian

i tepruar (de trop, dispensable, disproportionate, exaggerated, excess, excessive, exorbitant, extravagant, fabulous, far gone, fulsome, heavy, inordinate, lavish, over, profuse, redundant, undue, unreasonable), i papërmbajtur (demonstrative, ebullient, effuse, effusive, fiery, gushing, harum scarum, hot-blooded, hot-headed, Hotspur, incontinent, intemperate, jazz, jazzy, lawless, out of hand, rampageous, rampant, unchecked, unconscionable, uncontained, uncontrollable, unreserved, unrestrained, wanton, wild). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مفرط (exaggerated, excess, excessive, exorbitant, extravagant, extreme, frightful, intemperate, intolerable, overabundant, overmuch, overweening, super, superabundant, superfluous, superlative, too much, unconscionable, undue, unqualified, unreasonable, unrestrained), ‏متطرف (drastic, excessive, extravagant, extreme, extremist, inordinate, intemperate, radical, unrestrained), ‏غير معتدل, ‏على نحو مخالف للعادة. (various references)

Bulgarian 

неумерен (intemperate), прекомерен (exaggerated, excessive, exorbitant, extravagant, inordinate, intense, over, undue). (various references)

Chinese 

无节制 (incontinence, incontinency, inordinate, intemperate). (various references)

Czech

přemrštìný (camp, exorbitant, extravagant, fancy, glowing, gushing, hysterical, steep, stiff, unreasonable), nestřídmý (excessive, intemperate), nemírný (inordinate, intemperate, undue). (various references)

Farsi 

زیاد (Copious, Extortionary, Far, Generous, Great, Heavy, High, Intense, Late, Liberal, Manifold, Many, Much, Populous, Rife, Superabundant, Thick, Too, Vast, Very, Wide), بی اعتدال (Inclement, Intemperate). (various references)

Finnish

yletön (excessive, extravagant, unreasonable), kohtuuton (excessive, exorbitant, extortionate, unfair, unreasonable), kohtuuhinta (excessive, exorbitant, extortionate, unfair, unreasonable). (various references)

French

immodéré. (various references)

German

maßlos (boundless, excessive, exorbitant, exorbitantly, extremely, grossly, hugely, immoderately, intemperate, outrageously, overweening, wild, wildly). (various references)

Greek 

υπέρμετροσ (excessive, exorbitance, inordinate, overmuch), υπερβολικόσ (abnormal, exceeding, excess, exorbitant, extravagant, fulsome, hyperbolic, inordinate, profuse in, rampant, rank, steep, undue, vaulting, whopping), άμετροσ (extravagant, immeasurable, inordinate, measureless, unmeasured). (various references)

Hebrew 

מופרז (exaggerated, excessive, extravagant, inordinate, outre, tall, undue), מוגזם (a bit thick, exaggerated, fulsome, inordinate, tall). (various references)

Hungarian

túlságos (exaggerated, excessive, inordinate, over-development, undue), mértéktelen (beyond measure, excessive, incontinent, inordinate, intemperate, loose, outrageous, sodden face, to know no bounds, to know no measure, to lose all sense of proportion). (various references)

Indonesian

tidak wajar, tidak lazim. (various references)

Italian

immoderato (inordinate), smodato (excessive, inordinate). (various references)

Korean 

무절제한. (various references)

Manx

neuhaieagh (insufficient), jollyssagh (avid, greedy, insatiable, rapacious, voracious). (various references)

Norwegian

umåtelig (exceedingly, immeasurably, immensely), overdreven (excessive, inordinate). (various references)

Pig Latin

immoderateay.(various references)

Portuguese

imoderado (incontinent, inordinate, intemperate, lawless, licentious, riotous, unmeasured, unreasonable, unreserved), excessivo (exceeding, excessive, exorbitant, fulsome, inordinate, out-of-the-way, over, overabundant, overdone, overpowering, prohibitive, racking, rampant, redundant, steep, superfluous, supervacaneous, too, ultra, unbounded, unconscionable, undue), desordenado (deranged, disorderly, higgledy-piggledy, hugger-mugger, indigested, inordinate, lawless, pell-mell, rough and tumble, tumultuous, turbulent, untidy). (various references)

Romanian

necumpãrat, lipsit de moderaţie. (various references)

Russian 

чрезмерный (exacting, exceeding, excessive, exorbitant, extreme, fulsome, inordinate, over, overextended, overweening, prodigal, profuse, prohibitive, redundant, supererogatory, superfluous, unconscionable, undue), неумеренный (overindulgent). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

neumeren (intemperate, unrestrained). (various references)

Spanish

inmoderado (intemperate, self indulgent), excesivo (exceeding, excessive, exorbitant, extortionate, extravagant, fancy, fulsome, inflated, inordinate, reckless, redundant, unconscionable, undue, unreasonable, wasteful). (various references)

Swedish

omåttlig (crapulent, crapulous, excessive, exorbitant, extravagant, inordinate, intemperate, outrageous, overweening, unconscionable). (various references)

Turkish

dengesiz (astatic, deranged, inequable, lop-sided, Moody, non compos, non compos mentis, off one's rocker, out-of-balance, unbalanced, uncompensated, uneven, unstable), aşırı (acute, beastly, beyond, breakneck, camp, confoundedly, cruelly, crusted, damned, dead, deep, desperate, desperately, devilish, disproportionate, every other day, exaggerated, exceeding, excessive, excessively, exorbitant, exquisite, extortionate, extravagant, extreme, extremely, fancy, ferocious, filthy, fond, fulsome, hard, heavy, hell, hell of, high, horrendous, horrific, hyper-, inordinate, intense, intensive, like hell, like sin, outrageous, over, overweening, precious, shocking, splitting, steep, super, terribly, thick, ultra, unbounded, unco, unconscionable, undue, unmeasured, unreasonable, violent), ölçüsüz (beyond measure, exceeding, excessive, extravagant, extreme, incommensurable, inordinate, intemperate, measureless, out of all measure, unbounded, unconscionable, unmeasured), çok fazla (damn, devilish, excessively, exorbitant, far too much, like blazes, mightily, oodles of, over, overmuch, plethoric, superabundant, too many, too much). (various references)

Ukrainian

нестриманий (abandoned, bestial, expansive, incontinent, inordinate, outgiving, unchecked, unreserved, unrestrained, unsuppressed), надмірний (exceeding, excessive, exorbitant, fulsome, outrageous, over, overabundant, overdue, plethoric, prodigal, profuse, racking, steep, superabundant, undue, unlimited, unreasonable). (various references)

Vietnamese 

thái quá (consumedly, overly, unfair), quá độ (consumedly, transitional, transitionary). (various references)

Welsh

anghymedrol. (various references)

immodicus, ingens, ingentem, ingentes, ingenti, ingentia, ingentique, inmoderata, inpensa, inpensas, luxuriosa, luxuriosam, luxuriosus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "immoderate": immoderately, immoderateness, immoderatenesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Immoderate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: emmoderate, immiserated, mmoderate. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: dermatome, dreamtime.

-2 letters: diameter, mediator, moderate.

-3 letters: ammeter, demerit, dimeter, emerita, emeroid, emirate, marmite, meatier, mediate, merited, mermaid, metamer, midterm, mimeoed, mitered, readmit, remated, retimed, trammed, trimmed.

-4 letters: admire, adroit, aeried, airted, dammer, dearie, demote, derate, diatom, dieter, dimmer, dormie, dotier, dreamt, editor, emerod, emoted, emoter, ideate, imaret, iodate, itemed, maimed, maimer, marmot, marted.

+2 letters: commiserated, immoderately.

+3 letters: dynamometries, melodramatise, melodramatize.

+4 letters: immoderateness, melodramatised, melodramatises, melodramatized, melodramatizes, recommendation.

+5 letters: recommendations, semidocumentary.