Dictionary Entry
intemperate
intemperate is a 11-letter English word with 7 senses as adjective and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Indulging any appetite or passion to excess; immoderate to enjoyments or exertion. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
11 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 18 · 7 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Indulging any appetite or passion to excess; immoderate to enjoyments or exertion.
- 2adjective
Specifically, addicted to an excessive or habitual use of alcoholic liquors.
- 3adjective
Excessive; ungovernable; inordinate; violent; immoderate; as, intemperate language, zeal, etc.; intemperate weather.
- 4transitive verb
To disorder.
- 5adjective
given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors
"a hard drinker"
- 6adjective
excessive in behavior
"intemperate rage"
- 7adjective
(of weather or climate) not mild; subject to extremes
"an intemperate climate"
"intemperate zones"
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