 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
temperate
adjective
1: (of weather or climate) free from extremes; mild; or
characteristic of such weather or climate; "a
temperate region"; "the temperate zones"; "temperate
plants" [ant: {intemperate}]
2: not extreme in behavior; "temperate in his habits"; "a
temperate response to an insult"; "temperate in his eating
and drinking" [ant: {intemperate}]
3: not extreme; "a moderate penalty"; "temperate in his
response to criticism" [syn: {moderate}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Temperate \Tem"per*ate\, verb (used with an object)
To render temperate; to moderate; to soften; to temper.
[Obs.]
It inflames temperance, and temperates wrath.
--Marston.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Temperate \Tem"per*ate\, adjective [L. temperatus, p. p. of temperare.
See {Temper}, verb (used with an object)]
1. Moderate; not excessive; as, temperate heat; a temperate
climate.
2. Not marked with passion; not violent; cool; calm; as,
temperate language.
She is not hot, but temperate as the morn. --Shak.
That sober freedom out of which there springs
Our loyal passion for our temperate kings.
--Tennyson.
3. Moderate in the indulgence of the natural appetites or
passions; as, temperate in eating and drinking.
Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy.
--Franklin.
4. Proceeding from temperance. [R.]
The temperate sleeps, and spirits light as air.
--Pope.
{Temperate zone} (Geog.), that part of the earth which lies
between either tropic and the corresponding polar circle;
-- so called because the heat is less than in the torrid
zone, and the cold less than in the frigid zones.
Syn: Abstemious; sober; calm; cool; sedate.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
109 Moby Thesaurus words for "temperate":
abstemious, abstentious, abstinent, aestival, ascetic, austere,
bland, blood-hot, blood-warm, bracing, calid, calm, celibate,
chaste, checked, chill, chilly, cold sober, composed, constant,
continent, controlled, cool, coolish, curbed, disciplined,
discreet, dispassionate, equable, equatorial, even, even-tempered,
forbearing, fresh, frugal, genial, gentle, grave, imperturbable,
indulgent, invigorating, judicious, luke, lukewarm, measured, mild,
mild as milk, moderate, modest, nonviolent, pacifistic, peaceable,
peaceful, prudent, puritanical, quiet, rational, reasonable,
regulated, restrained, room-temperature, sane, sedate,
self-denying, self-indulgent, self-possessed, self-restrained,
sensible, serene, serious, sober, sober-minded, sobersided, soft,
solemn, sparing, stable, staid, steady, stimulating, stinting,
subtropical, summery, sunny, sunshiny, tame, teetotal, tepid,
thermal, thermic, toasty, tranquil, tropical, undrunk, undrunken,
unexcessive, unexcited, unextreme, unfrozen, unimpassioned,
uninebriate, uninebrious, unintoxicated, unperturbed, unruffled,
untipsy, warm, warm as toast, warmish
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