moderate
He was a moderately successful painter.
They recommended that the drug be prescribed for women at moderately high risk of heart disease.
Bake in a moderately hot oven.

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faintly
fairly
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halfway
lightly
little
mildly
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trifle
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moderately | American Dictionary

moderately
adverb
us/ˈmɑd·ər·ɪt·li/

moderatelyadverb (MEDIUM)

within a middle range in size, amount, or degree; neither great nor little:
The new apartment complex will be moderately priced for middle-income people.

moderatelyadverb (SOME)

to some degree:
He was moderately successful, making a living but hardly getting rich.

moderately | Business English

moderately
adverb
uk /ˈmɒdərətli/us
used to describe an action or a quality that is not very large or small but between the two:
Moderately priced autos sell better during a recession.
Moderately sized clothing is frequently labelled in small sizes to make the purchaser feel slim.
fairly but not very:
The new line of MP3 players was moderately successful.

Examples of moderately

moderately
The split removed an incentive to behave moderately as there were no longer national politicians but only regional ones.
The cumulative contextual risk variables were moderately intercorrelated, suggesting that the domains of risk tended to co-occur.
These individuals may speak in a moderately coherent manner, but they make highly implausible statements regarding the causes and consequences of traumatic attachment-related events.
In 128 middle-aged patients treated with medication for 5 years for moderately elevated blood pressure, it is possible to avoid cardiovascular disease in one individual.
It seems to show that setting to higher values means dismissing too many moderately similar supertags from being used in smoothing.
Being disabled or recently disabled or being unemployed or recently unemployed increased the risk moderately.
Negative appraisals during the acute phase were quite prominent, with an item mean comparable to the ' moderately worried ' rating.
Each statement was classified as mildly controlling, moderately controlling, or highly controlling.
The intercropped legumes grew moderately well most years.
Political tolerance was moderately stable during the 1996-98 period.
Together, the city's hospitals have enough resources to provide potentially lifesaving treatment to about 150 moderately ill or 50 seriously ill people.
All the samples are moderately to severely altered due to early burial and later subaerial weathering following uplift and erosion.
Distinct cores are moderately common and many grains display simple or complex and regular ('magmatic') zoning.
The percentages reported in the text refer to items receiving a score of 3 or better (representing moderately to extremely important).
The shell elements are either thin, moderately ornamented, and with acute borders or thick, with marked dichotomized sulci, and obtuse borders.
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