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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
immoderate
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Already the tragic discovery of a yellow-suited body among the pinnacles has led to furious and immoderate speculation in the national press.
▪ Although Leapor accepts that many women are guilty of inconstancy and immoderate behaviour, she none the less holds out the prospect of transformation.
▪ In 1761 J. Hill associated cancer of the nasal passages with the immoderate use of snuff.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Immoderate

Immoderate \Im*mod"er*ate\, a. [L. immoderatus; pref. im- not + moderatus moderate. See Moderate.] Not moderate; exceeding just or usual and suitable bounds; excessive; extravagant; unreasonable; as, immoderate demands; immoderate grief; immoderate laughter.

So every scope by the immoderate use Turns to restraint.
--Shak.

Syn: Excessive; exorbitant; unreasonable; extravagant; intemperate; inordinate.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
immoderate

late 14c., from Latin immoderatus "boundless, immeasurable," figuratively "unrestrained, excessive," from assimilated form of in- "not, opposite of" (see in- (1)) + moderatus "restrained" (see moderate). Related: Immoderately.

Wiktionary
immoderate

a. excessive or lacking, not consistent

WordNet
immoderate

adj. not within reasonable limits; "immoderate laughter"; "immoderate spending" [ant: moderate]

Usage examples of "immoderate".

Catholic Albanians, Orthodox Greeks and the various minorities such as Melchites, Copts, Jews and Nestorians for a north wind had been immoderate, so was the response: the north wind came, but although it carried the Dryad racing down to Cephalonia it also kept the transports pinned there, and quite soon it worked up such a heavy sea that it was impossible to stay on that exposed corner of the mole.

Nor have I any doubt that you, whom I have heard to be the tenderest of mothers, will suffer any immoderate indulgence of grief to prevent you from discharging your duty to those poor infants, who now alone stand in need of your tenderness.

It was of the colour of smoked bacon rind and transversed with even darker lines, the concertina creases of immoderate mirth.

Temperance she commands to take only a certain quantity even of the most favorite food, lest, through immoderate use, anything prove hurtful by disturbing the health of the body, and thus Pleasure, which the Epicureans make to consist chiefly in the health of the body, be grievously offended.

But his immoderate taste for the high life (which he shared with General Howe) curled a question mark over his capacities, and even in a farewell and affectionate letter to his wife before he sailed for Boston in 1775, he felt obliged, as a self-confessed libertine, to couple his declarations of everlasting love with apologies for “the levities, the inattentions, and dissipations of my common course of life.