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In an immoderate manner.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- 2002, Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex, New York: Picador, Book One, “The Silver Spoon,” p. 13, From the tender age of twelve, my mother had been unable to start her day without the aid of at least two cups of immoderately strong, tar-black, unsweetened coffee, a taste for which she had picked up from the tugboat captains and zooty bachelors who filled the boardinghouse where she had grown up.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
to a degree that exceeds the bounds or reason or moderation
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- his prices are unreasonably high
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: unreasonably
Antonyms: moderately
without moderation; in an immoderate manner
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: moderately
From Middle English immoderatliche, inmoderately; equivalent to immoderate + -ly.
Across languages
Translations
13 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Catalan:
immoderadament
— in an immoderate manner
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Finnish:
ylenpalttisesti
— in an immoderate manner
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French:
immodérément
— in an immoderate manner
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German:
maßlos
— in an immoderate manner
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Ancient Greek:
ἀμέτρως
(amétrōs)
— in an immoderate manner
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Hungarian:
mértéktelenül
— in an immoderate manner
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Italian:
smodatamente
— in an immoderate manner
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Polish:
bez umiaru
— in an immoderate manner
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Polish:
bez opamiętania
— in an immoderate manner
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Polish:
nadmiernie
— in an immoderate manner
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Polish:
przesadnie
— in an immoderate manner
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Polish:
nieumiarkowanie
— in an immoderate manner
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Polish:
niepohamowanie
— in an immoderate manner
