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Antonyms for Temper
ˈtɛm pərtem·per
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Wiktionary
temperverb
To mix clay, plaster or mortar with water to obtain the proper consistency
Synonyms:
drop forge
English Synonyms and Antonyms
temper
Displeasure is the mildest and most general word. Choler and ire, now rare except in poetic or highly rhetorical language, denote a still, and the latter a persistent, anger. Temper used alone in the sense of anger is colloquial, tho we may correctly say a hot temper, a fiery temper, etc. Passion, tho a word of far wider application, may, in the singular, be employed to denote anger; "did put me in a towering passion,"
Shakespeare Hamlet act v, sc. 2. Anger is violent and vindictive emotion, which is sharp, sudden, and, like all violent passions, necessarily brief. Resentment (a feeling back or feeling over again) is persistent, the bitter brooding over injuries. Exasperation, a roughening, is a hot, superficial intensity of anger, demanding instant expression. Rage drives one beyond the bounds of prudence or discretion; fury is stronger yet, and sweeps one away into uncontrollable violence. Anger is personal and usually selfish, aroused by real or supposed wrong to oneself, and directed specifically and intensely against the person who is viewed as blameworthy. Indignation is impersonal and unselfish displeasure at unworthy acts (Latin indigna), i. e., at wrong as wrong. Pure indignation is not followed by regret, and needs no repentance; it is also more self-controlled than anger. Anger is commonly a sin; indignation is often a duty. Wrath is deep and perhaps vengeful displeasure, as when the people of Nazareth were "filled with wrath" at the plain words of Jesus (Luke iv, 28); it may, however, simply express the culmination of righteous indignation without malice in a pure being; as, the wrath of God. Impatience, fretfulness, irritation, peevishness, pettishness, petulance, and vexation express the slighter forms of anger. Irritation, petulance, and vexation are temporary and for immediate cause. Fretfulness, pettishness, and peevishness are chronic states finding in any petty matter an occasion for their exercise. Compare ACRIMONY; ENMITY; HATRED.Antonyms:
amiability, charity, forbearance, gentleness, leniency, lenity, long-suffering, love, mildness, patience, peace, peaceableness, peacefulness, self-control, self-restraintSynonyms:
anger, animosity, choler, displeasure, exasperation, fretfulness, fury, impatience, indignation, ire, irritation, offense, passion, peevishness, pettishness, petulance, rage, resentment, vexation, wrathPreposition:
Anger at the insult prompted the reply. Anger toward the offender exaggerates the offense.
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
tempernoun
Synonyms:
temperament, disposition, constitution, frame, mood, spirit, irritability, heat, humor, passiontemperverb
Synonyms:
modify, accommodate, qualify, soften, assuage, soothe, adapt, restrain
Princeton's WordNet
pique, temper, irritationnoun
a sudden outburst of anger
"his temper sparked like damp firewood"
Synonyms:
discomfort, temper, annoying, toughness, botheration, surliness, biliousness, innervation, mood, provocation, peevishness, pique, humor, pettishness, excitation, soreness, irritation, irritability, humour, aggravation, snappishness, vexation, annoyancetemper, mood, humor, humournoun
a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
"whether he praised or cursed me depended on his temper at the time"; "he was in a bad humor"
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liquid body substance, temper, modality, sense of humour, climate, irritability, surliness, biliousness, mode, mood, peevishness, pique, humor, pettishness, wittiness, body fluid, irritation, sense of humor, wit, humour, bodily fluid, snappishness, toughness, witticismtemper, biliousness, irritability, peevishness, pettishness, snappishness, surlinessnoun
a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger
"his temper was well known to all his employees"
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temper, crossness, petulance, toughness, irritability, surliness, biliousness, mood, excitability, fussiness, peevishness, pique, humor, pettishness, irritation, humour, choler, snappishness, fretfulnesstemper, toughnessverb
the elasticity and hardness of a metal object; its ability to absorb considerable energy before cracking
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ruggedness, huskiness, irritability, surliness, biliousness, mood, stamina, peevishness, pique, humor, pettishness, staying power, temper, irritation, humour, formidability, snappishness, toughnessanneal, temper, normalizeverb
bring to a desired consistency, texture, or hardness by a process of gradually heating and cooling
"temper glass"
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temper, season, chasten, anneal, normalize, moderate, renormalise, harden, renormalize, normalise, mollifytemper, hardenverb
harden by reheating and cooling in oil
"temper steel"
Synonyms:
temper, season, chasten, anneal, mollify, moderate, indurate, harden, inure, normalizetemperverb
adjust the pitch (of pianos)
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chasten, harden, normalize, season, mollify, anneal, moderatetemper, season, mollifyverb
make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else; moderate
"she tempered her criticism"
Synonyms:
conciliate, gentle, chasten, flavour, placate, temper, moderate, gruntle, flavor, mollify, harden, appease, pacify, assuage, lenify, normalize, anneal, seasonchasten, moderate, temperverb
restrain
Synonyms:
lead, temper, mince, hold in, tame, anneal, control, objurgate, moderate, hold, castigate, correct, curb, harden, soften, tone down, mollify, chastise, check, chasten, normalize, chair, season, subdue, contain
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How to use Temper in a sentence?
She cursed me, telling me ‘You should have stayed in North Korea. Why did you come here and bump into me?‘ it deeply hurt me. I couldn’t show my temper because I was hurt too much ... I just stood helplessly and I didn’t go to school for a week.
I actually temper John, i have John Bolton and I have other people that are a little more dovish than John Bolton and ultimately I make the decision.
I have a lot of experience dealing with men who sometimes get off the reservation in the way they behave and how they speak. I'm not going to deal with their temper tantrums or their bullying or their efforts to try to provoke me. He can say whatever he wants to say about me. I could really care less.
When you get into the central stations, it's carnage, it's hot, it's sweaty and someone's going to lose their temper soon.
When I go on the road and I'm in Dubai or Adelaide, there's nobody else to drive carpool, handle ice-skating or a temper tantrum. There's nobody else to handle the bills, she has to do it all alone.
Words popularity by usage frequency
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#370 | love | |
#1720 | peace | |
#4766 | charity | |
#10278 | patience | |
#19215 | temper | |
#50293 | forbearance | |
#52299 | gentleness | |
#74912 | leniency | |
#105279 | peacefulness | |
#155933 | mildness | |
#238542 | amiability | |
#243923 | lenity |
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