adv
Meaning 1
In a moderate manner.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- During the debate, they disagreed plainly, but moderately.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
moderately
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adv
Meaning 2
To a moderate extent or degree.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- They were at least moderately happy with their bonuses.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adverb
Meaning 3
to a moderately sufficient extent or degree
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- pretty big
- pretty bad
- jolly decent of him
- the shoes are priced reasonably
- he is fairly clever with computers
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: reasonably, pretty, jolly, somewhat, fairly, middling, passably
Antonyms: immoderately
adverb
Meaning 4
with moderation; in a moderate manner
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- he drinks moderately
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: immoderately
History
Etymology
From Middle English moderately, moderatelye, moderatliche, moderatly, modiratli; equivalent to moderate + -ly.
Across languages
Translations
23 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Catalan: moderadament — in a moderate manner
- Chinese Mandarin: 温和地 — in a moderate manner
- Czech: mírně — in a moderate manner
- Danish: moderat — in a moderate manner
- Finnish: maltillisesti — in a moderate manner
- Finnish: rauhallisesti — in a moderate manner
- Galician: moderadamente — in a moderate manner
- Ancient Greek: μετρίως (metríōs) — in a moderate manner
- Portuguese: moderadamente — in a moderate manner
- Russian: уме́ренно (umérenno) — in a moderate manner
- Spanish: moderadamente — in a moderate manner
- Ukrainian: помі́рно (pomírno) — in a moderate manner
- Catalan: moderadament — to a moderate degree
- Czech: mírně — to a moderate degree
- Czech: středně — to a moderate degree
- Finnish: kohtalaisen — to a moderate degree
- Finnish: kohtuullisen — to a moderate degree
- Finnish: kohtalaisesti — to a moderate degree
- Finnish: kohtuullisesti — to a moderate degree
- Galician: moderadamente — to a moderate degree
- Ancient Greek: μετρίως (metríōs) — to a moderate degree
- Polish: średnio — to a moderate degree
- Portuguese: moderadamente — to a moderate degree
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