immoderately
immoderately — adverb
1. when someone acts or something happens without any moderation, going well past s
when someone acts or something happens without any moderation, going well past sensible or normal limits
Quan drank immoderately at the wedding reception and fell asleep on a bench outside.
collocation: drink immoderately
Yael spent immoderately on shoes after getting her first full-time job in the city.
collocation: spend immoderately
The old car burned fuel immoderately, leaving the family short of money every month.
Piotr laughed immoderately at the joke until tears ran down his reddened cheeks.
Ava worried immoderately about her exam results, even though she had studied for months.
- excessively
more common and less formal; used in both speech and writing
- unreasonably
emphasises lack of good judgement rather than just large quantity
- inordinately
similarly formal; stresses that something is out of proportion
- unduly
formal and often used in legal or official contexts
- moderately
with restraint and within reasonable limits
- sparingly
using very little; the opposite of excess
文法句型
immoderately + verb (drink, spend, eat, laugh, worry)
用法筆記
A formal adverb. In everyday speech, speakers more often use 'far too much,' 'excessively,' or 'way too' before the verb.