Intemperate definition
Weather where it is freezing and snowing one day and 90 degrees the next is an example of intemperate or extreme weather.
When you consume five beers in one sitting, this is an example of an intemperate occasion.
An intemperate denunciation.
- Not moderate; lacking restraint; excessive.
- Severe or violent; inclement.An intemperate wind.
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.
Origin of intemperate
- in- + temperate
From Wiktionary