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moderately

  • adverb

In a moderate manner.

Example

“During the debate, they disagreed plainly, but moderately.”

Other meanings

  1. To a moderate extent or degree.

    “They were at least moderately happy with their bonuses.”

Synonyms

  • reasonably
  • pretty
  • somewhat
  • fairly

Word history

From Middle English "moderately".

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “moderately” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.