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temperate

[ tem-per-it, tem-prit ]

adjective

  1. moderate or self-restrained; not extreme in opinion, statement, etc.:

    a temperate response to an insulting challenge.

    Synonyms: dispassionate, sober

  2. moderate as regards indulgence of appetite or passion, especially in the use of alcoholic liquors.
  3. not excessive in degree, as things, qualities, etc.
  4. moderate in respect to temperature; not subject to prolonged extremes of hot or cold weather.
  5. Microbiology. (of a virus) existing in infected host cells but rarely causing lysis.


temperate

/ ˈtɛmprɪt; ˈtɛmpərɪt /

adjective

  1. having a climate intermediate between tropical and polar; moderate or mild in temperature
  2. mild in quality or character; exhibiting temperance


temperate

/ tĕmpər-ĭt /

  1. Marked by moderate temperatures, weather, or climate.


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Derived Forms

  • ˈtemperately, adverb
  • ˈtemperateness, noun

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Other Words From

  • temper·ate·ly adverb
  • temper·ate·ness noun
  • non·temper·ate adjective
  • non·temper·ate·ly adverb
  • non·temper·ate·ness noun
  • pre·temper·ate adjective
  • pre·temper·ate·ly adverb
  • un·temper·ate adjective
  • un·temper·ate·ly adverb
  • un·temper·ate·ness noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of temperate1

1350–1400; Middle English temperat < Latin temperātus, past participle of temperāre to exercise restraint, control. See temper, -ate 1

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Word History and Origins

Origin of temperate1

C14: from Latin temperātus

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Example Sentences

These infections are primarily detected during winter and spring in temperate climates and are found year-round in tropical and subtropical areas.

Something like a tenth of the people who live in the South and the Southwest — from South Carolina to Alabama to Texas to Southern California — decide to move north in search of a better economy and a more temperate environment.

The team still doesn’t know if the gas actually originates at the “temperate” heights observed in the Venusian clouds, or whether it’s produced closer to the surface and then rises.

In temperate climates, workers of this species forage alone, often for beetles.

Prairies are a type of temperate grassland, similar to savannahs or steppes.

Houston, where I have been working as a consultant, hardly qualifies as one of the most physically attractive or temperate cities.

Many Indians regard it as a quasi-mythical place, a land of lush hills, temperate climate, martial men, and handsome women.

From a lazy young man about town, I had become active, energetic, temperate, and above all—oh, above all else—ambitious.

Oregonians suffer through them in anticipation of the blissfully sunny and temperate summer.

In conversation, he is no less articulate, but he is decidedly more temperate, cheerful, even conciliatory.

The climate of those mountains is cold rather than temperate, and less healthful than sickly.

The same change occurs, though to a much smaller extent, in the soil in temperate climates.

He was of frugal and temperate habits, a wiry man at the height of his physical powers, with lean flanks and a deep chest.

While the tobacco of the tropics is the finest in flavor, the more temperate regions produce the finest and best colored leaf.

Doubtless the varieties grown in the tropics will be much finer than the varieties grown in a more temperate region.

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