'Intemperate' definitions:
Definition of 'intemperate'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Intemperate'
From: GCIDE
- Intemperate \In*tem`per*ate\, v. t. To disorder. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Intemperate'
From: GCIDE
- Intemperate \In*tem`per*ate\, a. [L. intemperatus. See In- not, and Temperate.]
- 1. Indulging any appetite or passion to excess; immoderate in enjoyment or exertion. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Specifically, addicted to an excessive or habitual use of alcoholic liquors. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Excessive; ungovernable; inordinate; violent; immoderate; as, intemperate language, zeal, etc.; intemperate weather. [1913 Webster]
- Most do taste through fond intemperate thirst. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Use not thy mouth to intemperate swearing. --Ecclus. xxiii. 13. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'intemperate'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- a bit much,
- abandoned,
- acute,
- all-devouring,
- Apician,
- bibacious,
- bibulous,
- bitter,
- bolting,
- boundless,
- brutal,
- cramming,
- crapulent,
- crapulous,
- cutting,
- dissipative,
- drastic,
- drunken,
- easy come,
- easy go,
- edacious,
- egregious,
- enormous,
- exaggerated,
- excessive,
- exorbitant,
- extravagant,
- extreme,
- fabulous,
- fancy,
- fierce,
- furious,
- gigantic,
- glutting,
- gluttonizing,
- gluttonous,
- go-go,
- gobbling,
- gorging,
- great,
- greedy,
- gulping,
- guttling,
- guzzling,
- hard,
- harsh,
- high,
- hoggish,
- hyperbolic,
- hyperphagic,
- hypertrophied,
- immoderate,
- inclement,
- incontinent,
- indulgent,
- inordinate,
- insatiable,
- intense,
- irrepressible,
- keen,
- lavish,
- lax,
- licentious,
- loose,
- monstrous,
- nonrestrictive,
- omnivorous,
- orgiastic,
- out of bounds,
- out of control,
- out of hand,
- out of sight,
- outrageous,
- overbig,
- overdeveloped,
- overgenerous,
- overgreat,
- overgrown,
- overindulgent,
- overindulging,
- overlarge,
- overlavish,
- overliberal,
- overmuch,
- overweening,
- penny-wise and pound-foolish,
- permissive,
- piercing,
- piggish,
- polyphagic,
- pound-foolish,
- prodigal,
- profligate,
- profuse,
- rampant,
- rapacious,
- ravenous,
- reinless,
- rigorous,
- riotous,
- rough,
- rugged,
- self-indulgent,
- severe,
- sharp,
- spendthrift,
- splitting,
- steep,
- stiff,
- stuffing,
- swinish,
- too much,
- tough,
- unbridled,
- unchecked,
- uncoerced,
- uncompelled,
- unconscionable,
- unconstrained,
- uncontinent,
- uncontrolled,
- uncurbed,
- undisciplined,
- undue,
- unforced,
- unfrugal,
- ungoverned,
- uninhibited,
- unlimited,
- unmastered,
- unmeasured,
- unmuzzled,
- unreasonable,
- unreined,
- unrepressed,
- unreserved,
- unrestrained,
- unrestrictive,
- unruly,
- unsubdued,
- unsuppressed,
- untempered,
- unthrifty,
- vehement,
- venomous,
- violent,
- virulent,
- voracious,
- wanton,
- wasteful,
- wild,
- wolfing