Word Meanings - TEMPERATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Moderate; not excessive; as, temperate heat; a temperate climate. 2. Not marked with passion; not violent; cool; calm; as, temperate language. She is not hot, but temperate as the morn. Shak. That sober freedom out of which there springs Our

Additional info about word: TEMPERATE

1. Moderate; not excessive; as, temperate heat; a temperate climate. 2. Not marked with passion; not violent; cool; calm; as, temperate language. She is not hot, but temperate as the morn. Shak. That sober freedom out of which there springs Our loyal passion for our temperate kings. Tennyson. 3. Moderate in the indulgence of the natural appetites or passions; as, temperate in eating and drinking. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Franklin. 4. Proceeding from temperance. The temperate sleeps, and spirits light as air. Pope. Temperate zone , that part of the earth which lies between either tropic and the corresponding polar circle; -- so called because the heat is less than in the torrid zone, and the cold less than in the frigid zones. Syn. -- Abstemious; sober; calm; cool; sedate.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of TEMPERATE)

• Abstemious
• Abstinent
• moderate
• self-denying
• sober
• temperate
• sparing
• frugal
• Temperate
• abstemious
• continent
• austere
• Frugal
• Sparing
• economical
• parsimonious
• abstinent
• saving
• thrifty
• provident
• Moderate
• Limited
• calm
• dispassionate
• steady
• ordinary
• Sober
• unintoxicated
• cool
• reasonable
• culm
• self-possessed
• sound
• unexcited
• serious
• grave
• sedate

Related words: (words related to TEMPERATE)

• SAVELY
  Safely. Chaucer.
• SPAR-HUNG
  Hung with spar, as a cave.
• SERIOUS
  1. Grave in manner or disposition; earnest; thoughtful; solemn; not light, gay, or volatile. He is always serious, yet there is about his manner a graceful ease. Macaulay. 2. Really intending what is said; being in earnest; not jesting
• GRAVES
  The sediment of melted tallow. Same as Greaves.
• GRAVEDIGGER
  See T (more info) 1. A digger of graves.
• SPARPOIL
  To scatter; to spread; to disperse.
• SPARPIECE
  The collar beam of a roof; the spanpiece. Gwilt.
• SEDATE
  Undisturbed by passion or caprice; calm; tranquil; serene; not passionate or giddy; composed; staid; as, a sedate soul, mind, or temper. Disputation carries away the mind from that calm and sedate temper which is so necessary to contemplate truth.
• LIMITARIAN
  Tending to limit.
• CONTINENTAL SYSTEM
  The system of commercial blockade aiming to exclude England from commerce with the Continent instituted by the Berlin decree, which Napoleon I. issued from Berlin Nov. 21, 1806, declaring the British Isles to be in a state of blockade, and British
• LIMITIVE
  Involving a limit; as, a limitive law, one designed to limit existing powers.
• LIMITABLE
  Capable of being limited.
• FRUGALNESS
  , n. Quality of being frugal; frugality.
• SAVORINESS
  The quality of being savory.
• SAVACIOUN
  Salvation.
• GRAVEL
  A deposit of small calculous concretions in the kidneys and the urinary or gall bladder; also, the disease of which they are a symptom. Gravel powder, a coarse gunpowder; pebble powder. (more info) strand; of Celtic origin; cf. Armor.
• SOUNDER
  One who, or that which; sounds; specifically, an instrument used in telegraphy in place of a register, the communications being read by sound.
• FRUGALLY
  Thriftily; prudently.
• SPARSELY
  In a scattered or sparse manner.
• SAVINGLY
  1. In a saving manner; with frugality or parsimony. 2. So as to be finally saved from eternal death. Savingly born of water and the Spirit. Waterland.
• DESPARPLE
  To scatter; to disparkle. Mandeville.
• HIGH-SOUNDING
  Pompous; noisy; ostentatious; as, high-sounding words or titles.
• UNTHRIFTY
  Not thrifty; profuse. Spenser.
• RESOUND
  resonare; pref. re- re- + sonare to sound, sonus sound. See Sound to 1. To sound loudly; as, his voice resounded far. 2. To be filled with sound; to ring; as, the woods resound with song. 3. To be echoed; to be sent back, as sound. "Common fame
• DISTEMPERATE
  1. Immoderate. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. Diseased; disordered. Wodroephe.
• FLUOR SPAR
  See FLUORITE
• INCONTINENT
  Unable to restrain natural evacuations. (more info) 1. Not continent; uncontrolled; not restraining the passions or appetites, particularly the sexual appetite; indulging unlawful lust; unchaste; lewd.
• LABOR-SAVING
  Saving labor; adapted to supersede or diminish the labor of men; as, laborsaving machinery.
• UNLIMITED
  1. Not limited; having no bounds; boundless; as, an unlimited expanse of ocean. 2. Undefined; indefinite; not bounded by proper exceptions; as, unlimited terms. "Nothing doth more prevail than unlimited generalities." Hooker. 3. Unconfined; not
• MISAVIZE
  To misadvise.
• TRANSPARENT
  transparere to be transparent; L. trans across, through + parere to 1. Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent
• OUTSPARKLE
  To exceed in sparkling.
• DISPARK
  1. To throw ; to treat as a common. The Gentiles were made to be God's people when the Jews' inclosure was disparked. Jer. Taylor. 2. To set at large; to release from inclosure. Till his free muse threw down the pale, And did at once dispark