| garden-variety | |
| generality | |
| golden mean | |
| guarded(moderate, careful, vague, cautious, timid) | |
| hackneyed | |
| half-and-half measures | |
| half measures | |
| halfway measures | |
| happy medium | |
| hard hat(expression, moderate, cautious, conventional, timid) | |
| holding to(expression, moderate, cautious, conventional, timid) | |
| humdrum | |
| illiberal(moderate, cautious, conventional, timid, traditional) | |
| impersonal(fair, neutral, impartial, unbiased, nonaligned) | |
| in a rut(expression, idiom, moderate, cautious, timid) | |
| inconsiderable(adjective, calm, soft, reasonable, gentle) | |
| inflexible(moderate, cautious, conventional, timid, traditional) | |
| intermediary | |
| judicious(adjective, calm, soft, reasonable, gentle) | |
| juste-milieu |
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