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intemperate

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Adjective
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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective intemperate has 3 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

intemperatea. [L. intemperatus. See In- not, and Temperate.].
  •  Indulging any appetite or passion to excess; immoderate in enjoyment or exertion.  [1913 Webster]
  •  addicted to an excessive or habitual use of alcoholic liquors.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Excessive; ungovernable; inordinate; violent; immoderate; as, intemperate language, zeal, etc.; intemperate weather.  [1913 Webster]
    "Most do taste through fond intemperate thirst."  [1913 Webster]
    "Use not thy mouth to intemperate swearing."  [1913 Webster]
intemperatev. t. 
     To disorder.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

intemperate, adj.
1 (of a person, conduct, or speech) immoderate; unbridled; violent (used intemperate language).
2 a given to excessive indulgence in alcohol. b excessively indulgent in one's appetites.

Derivative
intemperance n. intemperately adv. intemperateness n.
Etymology
ME f. L intemperatus (as IN-(1), TEMPERATE)

THESAURUS

intemperate

Apician, a bit much, abandoned, acute, all-devouring, 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

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Intemperance

N intemperance, sensuality, animalism, carnality, tragalism, pleasure, effeminacy, silkiness, luxury, luxuriousness, lap of pleasure, lap of luxury, free living, indulgence, high living, wild living, inabstinence, self- indulgence, voluptuousness, epicurism, epicureanism, sybaritism, drug habit, dissipation, licentiousness, debauchery, crapulence, revels, revelry, debauch, carousal, jollification, drinking bout, wassail, saturnalia, orgies, excess, too much, Circean cup, bhang, hashish, marijuana, pot, hemp, grass, opium, cocaine, morphine, heroin, LSD, lysergic acid diethylamide, phencyclidine, angel dust, PCP, barbiturates, amphetamines, speed, intemperate, inabstinent, sensual, self-indulgent, voluptuous, luxurious, licentious, wild, dissolute, rakish, fast, debauched, brutish, crapulous, swinish, piggish, Paphian, Epicurean, Sybaritical, bred in the lap of luxury, nursed in the lap of luxury, indulged, pampered, full-fed, high-fed, being full of supper and distempering draughts.

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