moderately
- adverb
- /ˈmɒdərətli/
- He is moderately skilled at playing the guitar, capable of playing some catchy tunes but not as advanced as a professional.
- only moderately
- moderately high
- moderately important
And there's some moderately robust stats that show this.
- And there's some moderately robust stats that show this.
- There is some good evidence that, as you said, using chocolate moderately is very, very good for you.
- So you can do like very steeped, lightly steeped or moderately steeped.
- There's all kinds of meat and dairy analogs out there, some of them moderately healthy, some very much not healthy.
- I'm slightly nervous, and I'm actually a little upset because I really did try moderately hard to make this work.
- And and it's basically saying that I should be a vegetarian, that I can eat fish and chicken moderately, but I should never eat red meat.
- Like I had this weird kind of like bitterness towards this child that I was like, not even moderately at fault.
Examples
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Further, most of the teenagers felt a moderately positive sense of attachment to their community of residence.
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In terms of cultural consistency, the results suggest that the set is moderately consistent with Native culture.
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But I hope you see this is moderately well done.
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It's like every time I get moderately good at something, I just quit and start something new.
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There is some good evidence that, as you said, using chocolate moderately is very, very good for you.
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Do you want to be in a large research university or in a moderately sized one?
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We anticipate the assault to be moderately brief.
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The majority of the respondents classified themselves as moderately interested, fairly interested, or "sort of interested."
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On average, respondents held moderately positive attitudes towards the teaching of PE.
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I mean, doing things repeatedly and moderately succeeding at them is good.
Synonyms
Fairly or to some degree when describing another word
To some degree but not completely
A little more than a bit but not very much
To some degree but not very much
To a small degree
To a fair degree but not very much
To a small, gentle degree
Good enough to do the job but not very good
To a medium level between two extremes
Antonyms
How Much
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Moderately comes from moderate, which comes from a Latin word meaning 'measure' or 'limit'. So, to do something moderately is to keep it within that 'measure' — not too much and not too little.