Intemperate definition

ĭn-tĕmpər-ĭt, -prĭt
The definition of intemperate is excessive and not mild, or indulging in alcohol to an extreme level.

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.

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Not temperate or moderate, especially in rhetoric or tone; unrestrained.

An intemperate denunciation.

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Not temperate.
  • Not moderate; lacking restraint; excessive.
  • Severe or violent; inclement.
    An intemperate wind.
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Drinking too much alcoholic liquor.
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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.

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Indulging any appetite or passion to excess, especially the drinking of alcohol.
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(obsolete) To disorder.
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Given to excessive drinking of alcoholic beverages.
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Origin of intemperate

Intemperate Sentence Examples

  • Prisoner was said to be of very intemperate habits.

  • Who is that intemperate and brutal man whom we would redeem?

  • At a school of art officially established in Tokyo in 1873 under the direction of Italian teachersa school which owed its signal failure partly to the incompetence and intemperate behaviour of some of its foreign professors, and partly to a strong renaissance of pure Japanese classicismone of the few accomplishments successfully taught was that of modelling in plaster and chiselling in marble after Occidental methods.

  • He took a prominent part in the agitation which followed "the Bulgarian atrocities"; his speeches were intemperate, and he was accused of uttering the words "Perish India!"

  • Erasmus never flouted at religion nor even at theology as such, but only at blind and intemperate theologians.

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