Intemperate vs Temperate - What's the difference?
intemperate | temperate |
Lacking moderation, temper or control.
Indulging any appetite or passion to excess, especially the drinking of alcohol.
Moderate; not excessive; as, temperate heat; a temperate climate.
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*:Hepaticology, outside the temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere, still lies deep in the shadow cast by that ultimate "closet taxonomist," Franz Stephani—a ghost whose shadow falls over us all.
*(rfdate) (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:She is not hot, but temperate as the morn.
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*:That sober freedom out of which there springs Our loyal passion for our temperate kings.
Moderate in the indulgence of the natural appetites or passions; as, temperate in eating and drinking.
*(rfdate) (Benjamin Franklin) (1706-1790)
*:Be sober and temperate , and you will be healthy.
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*:I am a temperate man and have made it a rule not to drink before luncheon. But I was so much ashamed of my first feeling about Gorman that I thought it well to break my rule.I gave my vote for whisky and soda as the more thorough-going drink of the two. A cocktail is seldom more than a mouthful.
Proceeding from temperance.
*(rfdate) (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
*:The temperate sleeps, and spirits light as air.
Living in an environment that is temperate, not extreme.
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(obsolete) To render temperate; to moderate; to soften; to temper.
:* It inflames temperance, and temperates wrath. Marston .
As adjectives the difference between intemperate and temperate
is that intemperate is lacking moderation, temper or control while temperate is moderate; not excessive; as, temperate heat; a temperate climate.As verbs the difference between intemperate and temperate
is that intemperate is to disorder while temperate is to render temperate; to moderate; to soften; to temper.intemperate
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- intemperate''' language; '''intemperate zeal
- Bad week for: Jeremy Clarkson, who has become a hate figure in Malaysia after launching an intemperate attack on a Malaysian built car'' - ''The Week , 14 April 2007, 609 , 4.
