Looking for a word
Brockadia
12-08-2005, 00:41
This has been bugging me for a while. This isn't meant to be a game or anything, I just really want to figure out this word, it's been on the tip of my tongue for hours. I have a few definitions for you.
It describes a centrist: ie, a right-winger is a conservative, a left-winger is a socialist, and a centrist is a _____
It is the opposite of a wingnut
It would be the opposite of the word extreme
It can be used to describe Goldilocks' porridge, chair, bed, etc. (the ones that are "just right" ie. not too hot, not too cold, or not too hard, not too soft)
Thanks for the help
Gymoor II The Return
12-08-2005, 00:54
This has been bugging me for a while. This isn't meant to be a game or anything, I just really want to figure out this word, it's been on the tip of my tongue for hours. I have a few definitions for you.
It describes a centrist: ie, a right-winger is a conservative, a left-winger is a socialist, and a centrist is a _____
It is the opposite of a wingnut
It would be the opposite of the word extreme
It can be used to describe Goldilocks' porridge, chair, bed, etc. (the ones that are "just right" ie. not too hot, not too cold, or not too hard, not too soft)
Thanks for the help
Apathetic drone? :D
Boonytopia
12-08-2005, 00:54
A fence-sitter?
[NS]Lafier
12-08-2005, 00:57
waffler
crazy
smart
not in politics (whoops, you said one word..)
indecisive
AkhPhasa
12-08-2005, 00:59
median?
It would be the opposite of the word extreme
'Intreme' or possibly just 'treme'?
Alien Born
12-08-2005, 01:06
Bland
It is the opposite of a wingnut
A bolt?
Sabbatis
12-08-2005, 01:18
Neutral, detached, disinterested, dispassionate, evenhanded, indifferent, nonaligned, nonpartisan, unaligned, unbiased, uncommitted, undecided, uninvolved, unprejudiced?
Ashmoria
12-08-2005, 01:20
why isnt the word you want "moderate"?
Dobbsworld
12-08-2005, 01:21
A fence-sitter?
You got there before I did. That's exactly how I'd've put it.
*Edit: maybe you mean 'unbiased' or 'non-partisan' but fence-sitter, or 'on the fence' works best for me
Brockadia
12-08-2005, 01:22
why isnt the word you want "moderate"?
I didn't say it wasn't, I just didn't expect an answer that fast. It was moderate, thank you.
Eutrusca
12-08-2005, 01:24
This has been bugging me for a while. This isn't meant to be a game or anything, I just really want to figure out this word, it's been on the tip of my tongue for hours. I have a few definitions for you.
It describes a centrist: ie, a right-winger is a conservative, a left-winger is a socialist, and a centrist is a _____
It is the opposite of a wingnut
It would be the opposite of the word extreme
It can be used to describe Goldilocks' porridge, chair, bed, etc. (the ones that are "just right" ie. not too hot, not too cold, or not too hard, not too soft)
Thanks for the help
Um ...
non-ideological
rational
practical
realistic
???
Um ...
non-ideological
rational
practical
realistic
Self-absorbed? Holier-than-thou?
Eutrusca
12-08-2005, 01:30
Self-absorbed?
ROFL! Thank you, Fass! I needed that laugh! :D
I didn't say it wasn't, I just didn't expect an answer that fast.
The difficult we do immediately; the impossible takes a little longer.
How is moderate the opposite of wingnut?
H N Fiddlebottoms VIII
12-08-2005, 05:38
How is moderate the opposite of wingnut?
Well, if you look at Paragraph C-17, Page Q23 of Section 42 in Declaration #38259681337, it will all become sufficiently vague that your eyes will glaze over and you will grant your agreement without further argument.