intemperate

English

Etymology

in- +‎ temperate

Adjective

intemperate (comparative more intemperate, superlative most intemperate)

1. Lacking moderation, temper or control.

   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.

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

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

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

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)