ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Immoderately

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adverb

Quick meaning: Immoderately is an adverb meaning In an immoderate manner.

Meaning

In an immoderate manner.

Example Sentences

[…] by the Mass: You’ll make excellent Wives, Cuckold your Husbands immoderately
[…] she pointed to a parcel which was causing the pocket of his well-cut Norfolk jacket to bulge immoderately.
by pursuinge wherof he imagynes he shall reape some glory to himselfe, of which he is immoderately ambitious, so that if the consultation be upon any action to be done, no man more implicitely enters into that debate, or more cheerefully resignes his owne conceptions to a joynt determination[…]
2002, Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex, New York: Picador, Book One, “The Silver Spoon,” p. 13, From the tender age of twelve, my mother had been unable to start her day without the aid of at least two cups of immoderately strong, tar-black, unsweetened coffee, a taste for which she had picked up from the tugboat captains and zooty bachelors who filled the boardinghouse where she had grown up.

Synonyms for immoderately

Depending on context, synonyms include unreasonably.

Antonyms for immoderately

Common opposites include fairly, middling, moderately, somewhat, passably, reasonably.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include unreasonably, unmoderately, moderately, immodestly, inordinately, intemperately.

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