Clues for the word "MODERATE"
We've had 32 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 51 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Daily American crossword on January 23, 2026.
Definition of moderate
- a. - Kept within due bounds; observing reasonable limits; not excessive, extreme, violent, or rigorous; limited; restrained
- a. - Limited in quantity; sparing; temperate; frugal; as, moderate in eating or drinking; a moderate table.
- a. - Limited in degree of activity, energy, or excitement; reasonable; calm; slow; as, moderate language; moderate endeavors.
- a. - Not extreme in opinion, in partisanship, and the like; as, a moderate Calvinist.
- a. - Not violent or rigorous; temperate; mild; gentle; as, a moderate winter.
- a. - Limited as to degree of progress; as, to travel at moderate speed.
- a. - Limited as to the degree in which a quality, principle, or faculty appears; as, an infusion of moderate strength; a man of moderate abilities.
- a. - Limited in scope or effects; as, a reformation of a moderate kind.
- n. - One of a party in the Church of Scotland in the 18th century, and part of the 19th, professing moderation in matters of church government, in discipline, and in doctrine.
- v. t. - To restrain from excess of any kind; to reduce from a state of violence, intensity, or excess; to keep within bounds; to make temperate; to lessen; to allay; to repress; to temper; to qualify; as, to moderate rage, action, desires, etc.; to moderate heat or wind.
- v. t. - To preside over, direct, or regulate, as a public meeting; as, to moderate a synod.
- v. i. - To become less violent, severe, rigorous, or intense; as, the wind has moderated.
- v. i. - To preside as a moderator.
Referring Clues
- Temper
- Not going too far
- Chair
- Middle-of-the-road
- Run the debate
- Preside over
- Less than intense
- Middle of the roader
- Middle-of-the-roader
- Not extreme
- Become less intense
- Calm
- Not excessive or extreme
- Restrain
- Read tome (anag) - unexceptional
- So-so
- Restrained by judge, after a fashion
- Soften
- Restrained friend when crossing river
- Dare me to (anag) - act as an arbitrator
- Regulate the cost of fashion?
- Controlled way to take speed
- Friend coming out of the river will be reasonable
- Mitigate, arbitrate
- Average speed on way
- Reduce speed, after a fashion
- Reasonable cost of fashion?
- Not excessive
- Centrist
- Fashion judge's temper
- Gradual
- Mollify
Last Seen In
- Daily American - January 23, 2026
- Daily Quick - January 21, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - October 08, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - July 11, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - March 25, 2025
- Daily American - January 03, 2025
- Family Time - March 17, 2024
- Daily American - January 23, 2024
- Daily Quick - January 21, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - January 18, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - March 11, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - February 10, 2023
- Daily American - January 03, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 23, 2022
- Penny Dell Daily - November 30, 2022
- Daily American - January 23, 2018
- Daily Quick - January 21, 2018
- Evening Standard Quick - February 23, 2017
- Family Time - January 22, 2017
- Daily American - January 03, 2017
- Netword - December 25, 2016
- Netword - December 11, 2016
- King Syndicate - Premier Sunday - June 12, 2016
- Guardian Quick - May 06, 2015
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - February 23, 2015
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - January 31, 2015
- Guardian Cryptic - October 24, 2014
- Guardian Quick - September 08, 2014
- USA Today - August 16, 2013
- Universal - April 16, 2013
- And in 21 more crossword puzzles...