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temper

noun

1 temper

A sudden outburst of anger:
— His temper sparked like damp firewood.

synonyms: irritation, pique.

Roget 323: hardness etc. adj.; rigidity; renitence, renitency; inflexibility, temper, callosity, durity.    induration, petrifaction; lapidification, ... show more

Dutch: woedeaanval

2 temper

A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling:
— Whether he praised or cursed me depended on his temper at the time.

synonyms: humor, humour, mood.

Roget 820: affections, affect; character, qualities, disposition, nature, spirit, tone; temper, temperament; diathesis, idiosyncrasy; cast of mind, cast of soul, ... show more

Roget 7: state, condition, category, estate, lot, ease, trim, mood, pickle, plight, temper; aspect etc. (appearance) ... show more

Roget 5: intrinsicality, inbeing, inherence, inhesion; subjectiveness; ego; egohood; essence, noumenon; essentialness etc. adj.; essential part, quintessence, ... show more

Dutch: karakter, uitharden, gemoed, bui, dispositie, geestesgesteldheid, humeur, luim, stemming
Polish: humor, nastrój, samopoczucie, stan, usposobienie

3 temper

A disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger:
— His temper was well known to all his employees.

synonyms: biliousness, irritability, peevishness, pettishness, snappishness, surliness.

Roget 901: irascibility, irascibleness, temper; crossness etc. adj.; susceptibility, procacity, petulance, irritability, tartness, acerbity, protervity; pugnacity ... show more

Dutch: snibbigheid
Polish: wybuchowość

4 temper

The elasticity and hardness of a metal object; its ability to absorb considerable energy before cracking.

synonym: toughness.

verb

1 temper

Bring to a desired consistency, texture, or hardness by a process of gradually heating and cooling:
— Temper glass.

synonyms: anneal, normalize.

Roget 673: prepare; get ready, make ready; make preparations, settle preliminaries, get up, sound the note of preparation.    set in order, put in order etc. (arrange) 60; forecast ... show more

Dutch: temperen

2 temper

Harden by reheating and cooling in oil:
— Temper steel.

synonym: harden.

Roget 323: render hard etc. adj.; harden, stiffen, indurate, petrify, temper, ossify, vitrify; accrust.   

3 temper

Adjust the pitch (of pianos).

4 temper

Make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else:
— She tempered her criticism.

synonyms: moderate, mollify, season.

Roget 324: render soft etc. adj.; soften, mollify, mellow, relax, temper; mash, knead, squash.    bend, yield, relent, ... show more

Roget 174: be moderate etc. adj.; keep within bounds, keep within compass; sober down, settle down; keep the peace, remit, relent, take in sail.    moderate, soften, mitigate, ... show more

Roget 469: qualify, limit, modify, leaven, give a color to, introduce new conditions, narrow, temper.    waffle, quibble, hem and haw (be uncertain) 475; equivocate ... show more

5 temper

Change by restraining or moderating.

synonym: chasten.


Moby thesaurus: Irish, abate, adjust, adjust to, allay, alleviate, alter, anger, animus, anneal, appease, aptitude, assuage, atmosphere, attain majority, attemper, attribute, aura, bad temper, balance ... show more.

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