intemperate

English

Etymology

in- +‎ temperate

Adjective

intemperate (comparative more intemperate, superlative most intemperate)

1. Lacking moderation, temper or control.

   intemperate language; intemperate zeal

2. Indulging any appetite or passion to excess, especially the drinking of alcohol.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:excessive

Translations

lacking moderation, temper or control

• Bulgarian: неумерен (bg) (neumeren), невъздържан (bg) (nevǎzdǎržan)
• Hungarian: féktelen (hu), mértéktelen (hu), zabolátlan (hu), gátlástalan (hu)
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• Latin: intemperans
• Russian: невоздержанный (ru) (nevozderžannyj)

indulging any appetite or passion to excess, especially the drinking of alcohol

• Hungarian: részeges (hu), iszákos (hu)
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Verb

intemperate (third-person singular simple present intemperates, present participle intemperating, simple past and past participle intemperated)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To disorder.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “intemperate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• impenetrate

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Latin

Etymology

intemperātus +‎ -ē

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /in.tem.peˈraː.teː/, [ɪn̪t̪ɛmpɛˈräːt̪eː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /in.tem.peˈra.te/, [in̪t̪empeˈräːt̪e]

Adverb

intemperātē (not comparable)

1. intemperately

References

• “intemperate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “intemperate”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers