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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Immoderate \Im*mod"er*ate\, adjective [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.
So every scope by the immoderate use Turns to restraint. --Shak.
Syn: Excessive; exorbitant; unreasonable; extravagant; intemperate; inordinate.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
immoderate
adjective: not within reasonable limits; "immoderate laughter"; "immoderate spending" [ant: {moderate}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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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