immoderate

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: im=mod=er=ate

CIDE DICTIONARY

immoderate, 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.  [1913 Webster]
"So every scope by the immoderate use
Turns to restraint."

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

OXFORD DICTIONARY

immoderate, adj. excessive; lacking moderation.

Derivative

immoderately adv. immoderateness n. immoderation n.

Etymology

ME f. L immoderatus (as IN-(1), MODERATE)

THESAURUS

immoderate

a bit much, abandoned, acute, bibulous, boundless, crapulent, crapulous, cutthroat, cutting, dizzy, drastic, egregious, enormous, exacting, exaggerated, excessive, exorbitant, extortionate, extravagant, extreme, fabulous, fancy, fierce, furious, gigantic, gluttonous, go-go, gouging, great, grossly overpriced, high, hyperbolic, hypertrophied, incontinent, indulgent, inflationary, inordinate, intemperate, intense, irrepressible, keen, lax, licentious, loose, monstrous, nonrestrictive, out of bounds, out of control, out of hand, out of sight, outrageous, overbig, overdeveloped, overgreat, overgrown, overindulgent, overindulging, overlarge, overmuch, overpriced, overweening, permissive, piercing, preposterous, prodigal, prohibitive, rampant, reinless, rigorous, riotous, rough, self-indulgent, severe, sharp, skyrocketing, spiraling, splitting, steep, stiff, swinish, too much, tough, towering, unbridled, unchecked, uncoerced, uncompelled, unconscionable, unconstrained, uncontrolled, uncurbed, undisciplined, undue, unforced, unfrugal, ungoverned, uninhibited, unlimited, unmastered, unmeasurable, unmeasured, unmuzzled, unreasonable, unreined, unrepressed, unreserved, unrestrained, unrestrictive, unruly, unsubdued, unsuppressed, untempered, unthrifty, unwarranted, usurious, vehement, venomous, violent, virulent, wanton, wild