moderate vs ultimate

moderate

adj
  • Not excessive; acting in moderation 

  • Having an intermediate position between liberal and conservative. 

  • Average priced; standard-deal 

  • more than mild, less than severe 

  • Mediocre 

  • Not violent or rigorous; temperate; mild; gentle. 

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

  • 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. 

verb
  • To become less excessive 

  • To reduce the excessiveness of (something) 

  • To preside over (something) as a moderator 

  • To act as a moderator; to assist in bringing to compromise 

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

ultimate

adj
  • Being the greatest possible; maximum; most extreme. 

  • Being the most distant or extreme; farthest. 

  • That will happen at some time; eventual. 

  • Final; last in a series. 

  • Last in a word or other utterance. 

  • Last in a train of progression or consequences; tended toward by all that precedes; arrived at, as the last result; final. 

  • Incapable of further analysis; incapable of further division or separation; constituent; elemental. 

noun
  • The greatest extremity; the maximum 

  • The most basic or fundamental of a set of things 

  • The final or most distant point; the conclusion 

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