Intemperate
[ɪn'temp(ə)rət] or [ɪn'tɛmpərət]
Definition
(adj.) given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors; 'a hard drinker' .
(adj.) excessive in behavior; 'intemperate rage' .
(adj.) (of weather or climate) not mild; subject to extremes; 'an intemperate climate'; 'intemperate zones' .
Editor: Segre--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Indulging any appetite or passion to excess; immoderate to enjoyments or exertion.
(a.) Specifically, addicted to an excessive or habitual use of alcoholic liquors.
(a.) Excessive; ungovernable; inordinate; violent; immoderate; as, intemperate language, zeal, etc.; intemperate weather.
(v. t.) To disorder.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Excessive, inordinate, not temperate.[2]. Given to excess in drinking intoxicating liquors.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See TEMPERATE]
Editor: Louise
Examples
- But, though luxurious, the Norman nobles were not generally speaking an intemperate race. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- In the midst of this intemperate riot, Attila alone, without change of countenance, maintained his steadfast and inflexible gravity. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Has not the intemperate been censured of old, because in him the huge multiform monster is allowed to be too much at large? Plato. The Republic.
- But they declined to treat intemperate and worthless subjects, even though they might have made large fortunes out of them. Plato. The Republic.
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