immoderate

English

Etymology

From Middle English inmoderat, immoderate, from Latin immoderātus.

Adjective

immoderate (comparative more immoderate, superlative most immoderate)

1. Not moderate; excessive.
   • 2023 March 21, Ian Bogost, “Is This the Singularity for Standardized Tests?”, in The Atlantic‎^[1]:

     Many of the initial responses to GPT-4’s exam prowess were predictably immoderate: AI can keep up with human lawyers, or apply to Stanford, or make “education” useless.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:excessive

Derived terms

• immoderately
• immoderateness

Related terms

• immoderation

Translations

not moderate; excessive

• Bulgarian: неумерен (bg) (neumeren), прекален (bg) (prekalen)
• German: maßlos (de), unmäßig (de)
• Hebrew: מוגזם, מופרז
• Italian: senza moderazione
• Latin: improbus
• Macedonian: неу́мерен (neúmeren)
• Spanish: desmedido (es), desmesurado (es)

Latin

Adjective

immoderāte

1. vocative masculine singular of immoderātus

References

• “immoderate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “immoderate”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• immoderate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.