Moderate vs. Extreme — What's the Difference?

Being within reasonable limits; not excessive or extreme

Most remote in any direction; outermost or farthest

Not violent or subject to extremes; mild or calm; temperate

Being in or attaining the greatest or highest degree; very intense

Of medium or average quantity or extent.

Being far beyond the norm

Of limited or average quality; mediocre.

Of the greatest severity; drastic

Opposed to radical or extreme views or measures, especially in politics or religion.

Characterized by severe, usually oxygen-poor environmental conditions.

One who holds or champions moderate views or opinions, especially in politics or religion.

Having an affinity for such conditions

To cause to be less extreme, intense, or violent.

Very dangerous or difficult

To preside over

Participating or tending to participate in a very dangerous or difficult sport

To become less extreme, intense, or violent; abate.

(Archaic) Final; last.

To act as a moderator.

The greatest or utmost degree or point.

Not excessive; acting in moderation

Either of the two things situated at opposite ends of a range

More than mild, less than severe

An extreme condition.

Mediocre

An immoderate, drastic expedient

Average priced; standard-deal

The first or last term of a ratio or a series.

Not violent or rigorous; temperate; mild; gentle.

A maximum or minimum value of a function.

Having an intermediate position between liberal and conservative.

(Logic) The major or minor term of a syllogism.

One who holds an intermediate position between extremes, as in politics.

Of a place, the most remote, farthest or outermost.

One of a party in Scottish Church history dominant in the 18th century, lax in doctrine and discipline, but intolerant of evangelicalism and popular rights. It caused the secessions of 1733 and 1761, and its final resultant was the Disruption of 1843.

In the greatest or highest degree; intense.

(transitive) To reduce the excessiveness of (something)

Excessive, or far beyond the norm.

(intransitive) To become less excessive

Drastic, or of great severity.

(transitive) To preside over (something) as a moderator

Of sports, difficult or dangerous; performed in a hazardous environment.

(intransitive) To act as a moderator; to assist in bringing to compromise

(archaic) Ultimate, final or last.

To supply with a moderator substance that decreases the speed of neutrons in a nuclear reactor and hence increases likelihood of fission.

The greatest or utmost point, degree or condition.

Kept within due bounds; observing reasonable limits; not excessive, extreme, violent, or rigorous; limited; restrained

Each of the things at opposite ends of a range or scale.

Not violent or rigorous; temperate; mild; gentle; as, a moderate winter.

One of the last moments of life.

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.

A drastic expedient.

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.

Hardships, straits.

To preside over, direct, or regulate, as a public meeting or a discussion; as, to moderate a synod; to moderate a debate.

(mathematics) Either of the two numbers at the ends of a proportion, as 1 and 6 in 1:2=3:6.

To become less violent, severe, rigorous, or intense; as, the wind has moderated.

(archaic) Extremely.

To preside as a moderator.

At the utmost point, edge, or border; outermost; utmost; farthest; most remote; at the widest limit.

A person who takes a position in the political center

Last; final; conclusive; - said of time; as, the extreme hour of life.

Preside over;

The best of worst; most urgent; greatest; highest; immoderate; excessive; most violent; as, an extreme case; extreme folly.

Make less fast or intense;

Radical; ultra; as, extreme opinions.

Lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits;

Extended or contracted as much as possible; - said of intervals; as, an extreme sharp second; an extreme flat forth.

Make less severe or harsh;

The utmost point or verge; that part which terminates a body; extremity.

Make less strong or intense; soften;

Utmost limit or degree that is supposable or tolerable; hence, furthest degree; any undue departure from the mean; - often in the plural: things at an extreme distance from each other, the most widely different states, etc.; as, extremes of heat and cold, of virtue and vice; extremes meet.

Restrain or temper

An extreme state or condition; hence, calamity, danger, distress, etc.

Being within reasonable or average limits; not excessive or extreme;

Either of the extreme terms of a syllogism, the middle term being interposed between them.

Not extreme;

The first or the last term of a proportion or series.

Marked by avoidance of extravagance or extremes;

The furthest or highest degree of something;

The point located farthest from the middle of something

Of the greatest possible degree or extent or intensity;

Far beyond a norm in quantity or amount or degree; to an utmost degree;

Beyond a norm in views or actions;

Most distant in any direction;