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immoderately

immoderately adverb: in an immoderate manner.

Adverb

immoderately (comparative more immoderately, superlative most immoderately)

  1. In an immoderate manner.
    • 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.2002, Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex, New York: Picador, Book One, “The Silver Spoon,” p. 13
    • 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[…]1918, Various, Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles

Examples of immoderately in a sentence

  • […] she pointed to a parcel which was causing the pocket of his well-cut Norfolk jacket to bulge immoderately.1915, Emma Orczy, chapter 19, in A Bride of the Plains, New York: George H. Doran, page 174:
  • […] by the Mass: You’ll make excellent Wives, Cuckold your Husbands immoderately1676, Thomas Shadwell, The Virtuoso, London: Henry Herringman, act I, page 12:

Forms of immoderately

comparativemore immoderately
superlativemost immoderately

Origin of immoderately

From Middle English immoderatliche, inmoderately; equivalent to immoderate + -ly.

Questions about immoderately

What does immoderately mean?
Immoderately means in an immoderate manner.
How do you use immoderately in a sentence?
[…] she pointed to a parcel which was causing the pocket of his well-cut Norfolk jacket to bulge immoderately.
What part of speech is immoderately?
Immoderately is an adverb.

Words near immoderately in the dictionary

  1. immoble
  2. immoderacies
  3. immoderacy
  4. immoderancy
  5. immoderate
  6. immoderately
  7. immoderateness
  8. immoderation
  9. immoderations
  10. immodest
  11. immodesties

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