Immoderate
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
[1913 Webster]
So every scope by the immoderate use
Turns to restraint. --Shak.
Syn: Excessive; exorbitant; unreasonable; extravagant;
intemperate; inordinate.
[1913 Webster]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
121 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
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