temperate
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: The adjective is first attested in 1380, in Middle English, the verb in 1540; borrowed from Latin temperātus, perfect passive participle of temperō (“to moderate, forbear, combine properly”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (verb-forming suffix). See temper. Displaced native Old English ġemetegod.
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: more temperate
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most temperate
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Moderate; not excessive.
pos: adj
examples: temperate heat
He has a temperate demeanour
She is not hot, but temperate as the morn.
That sober freedom out of which there springs Our loyal passion for our temperate kings.
"Even in his most temperate moments he is constantly felling people with a hunting-crop."
gloss: Moderate; not excessive.
pos: adj
examples: These trees can only grow in temperate climates.
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.
gloss: Moderate; not excessive.
pos: adj
examples: temperate in eating and drinking.
August 9, 1768, Benjamin Franklin, To John Alleyne, Esq. On Early Marriages
Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy.
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.
gloss: Proceeding from temperance.
pos: adj
examples: The temperate sleeps, and spirits light as air.
gloss: Dependent on life in a temperate climate.
pos: adj
examples: temperate fishes
Synonyms: abstemious
calm
collected
composed
continent
cool
dispassionate
inexcitable
imperturbable
regular
sedate
sober
steady
staid
temperate
undisturbed
unexcitable
unexcited
unimpassioned
unpassionate
unperturbed
unruffled
unstirred
unsusceptible
Antonyms: excitable
fanciful
passionate
tempestuous
volatile
wild
Related words: temper
temperature
orderly
organized
patient
professional
restrained
serious
stoic
stoical
Derived words: intemperate
mesotemperate
nontemperate
orotemperate
palaeotemperate
paleotemperate
pseudotemperate
subtemperate
supratemperate
temperately
temperateness
temperate rainforest
temperate zone
untemperate
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: умерен
roman: umeren
lang: Catalan
word: temperat
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 溫和的 /温和的
roman: wēnhé de
lang: Czech
word: mírný
lang: Finnish
word: kohtuullinen
lang: Finnish
word: lauhkea
lang: Finnish
word: maltillinen
lang: French
word: tempéré
lang: Georgian
word: ზომიერი
roman: zomieri
lang: German
word: gemäßigt
lang: Hindi
word: शीतोष्ण
roman: śītoṣṇa
lang: Hungarian
word: mérsékelt
lang: Ingrian
word: lauhkia
lang: Irish
word: séimh
lang: Italian
word: temperato
lang: Korean
word: 온화한
roman: onhwahan
lang: Korean
word: 온난한
roman: onnanhan
lang: Latin
word: modicus
lang: Macedonian
word: умерен
roman: umeren
lang: Māori
word: hātai
lang: Old English
word: ġemetegod
lang: Persian
word: معتدل
roman: mo'tadel
lang: Portuguese
word: temperado
lang: Portuguese
word: ameno
lang: Russian
word: уме́ренный
roman: umérennyj
lang: Spanish
word: templado
lang: Spanish
word: temperado
lang: Spanish
word: ameno
lang: Bulgarian
word: сдържан
roman: sdǎržan
lang: Catalan
word: temperat
lang: Czech
word: zdrženlivý
lang: Finnish
word: lauhkea
lang: Finnish
word: kohtuullinen
lang: Finnish
word: hillitty
lang: German
word: zurückhaltend
lang: Hungarian
word: higgadt
lang: Macedonian
word: умерен
roman: umeren
lang: Macedonian
word: одмерен
roman: odmeren
lang: Old English
word: ġemetegod
lang: Portuguese
word: temperado
lang: Russian
word: уме́ренный
roman: umérennyj
lang: Russian
word: сде́ржанный
roman: sdéržannyj
lang: Russian
word: возде́ржанный
roman: vozdéržannyj