intemperance
Roget category 954
6. Words relating to the sentient and moral› 6.4. Moral affections
›› 6.4.4. Moral practice
#954.
Intemperance
noun
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
etc.
adj. —
epicurism,
epicureanism —
sybaritism —
drug habit.
dissipation —
licentiousness
etc.
adj. —
debauchery —
crapulence†.
revels,
revelry —
debauch,
carousal,
jollification,
drinking bout,
wassail,
saturnalia,
orgies —
excess,
too much.
Circean cup.
[drugs of abuse: list]
bhang,
hashish,
marijuana,
pot [Coll.],
hemp [Coll.],
grass [Coll.] —
opium,
cocaine,
morphine,
heroin —
LSD,
lysergic acid diethylamide [Chem] —
phencyclidine,
angel dust,
PCP —
barbiturates —
amphetamines,
speed [Coll.].
verb
be intemperate
etc.
adj. —
indulge,
exceed —
live well,
live high,
live high on the fat of the land,
live it up,
live high on the hog —
give a loose to indulgence
etc.
n. —
wallow in voluptuousness
etc.
n. —
plunge into dissipation.
revel —
rake,
live hard,
run riot,
sow one's wild oats —
slake one's appetite,
slake one's thirst —
swill —
pamper.
adjective
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.
phrase
being full of supper and distempering being full of supper and distempering draughts"
[Othello].
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