- Indulging any appetite or passion to excess;
immoderate to enjoyments or exertion. - Specifically, addicted to an excessive or habitual use
of alcoholic liquors. - Excessive; ungovernable; inordinate; violent;
immoderate; as, intemperate language, zeal, etc.; intemperate weather.
2 . Intemperate
[ v. t.]
- To disorder.
Meaning of 'intemperate' (Princeton's WordNet)
1 . intemperate
[ a]
Meaning (1): - (of weather or climate) not mild; subject to extremes
Example in sentence:
an intemperate climate;
intemperate zones
Meaning (2): - excessive in behavior
Example in sentence:
intemperate rage
3 . intemperate
[ s]
Meaning (3): - given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors