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Antonyms for temper
ˈtɛm pərtem·per

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Wiktionary5.0 / 1 vote

  1. temperverb

    To mix clay, plaster or mortar with water to obtain the proper consistency

    Synonyms:
    drop forge

English Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. 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-restraint

    Synonyms:
    anger, animosity, choler, displeasure, exasperation, fretfulness, fury, impatience, indignation, ire, irritation, offense, passion, peevishness, pettishness, petulance, rage, resentment, vexation, wrath

    Preposition:
    Anger at the insult prompted the reply. Anger toward the offender exaggerates the offense.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. tempernoun

    Synonyms:
    temperament, disposition, constitution, frame, mood, spirit, irritability, heat, humor, passion

  2. temperverb

    Synonyms:
    modify, accommodate, qualify, soften, assuage, soothe, adapt, restrain

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Princeton's WordNet3.3 / 4 votes

  1. pique, temper, irritationnoun

    a sudden outburst of anger

    "his temper sparked like damp firewood"

    Synonyms:
    discomfort, annoying, toughness, botheration, surliness, biliousness, innervation, mood, provocation, peevishness, pique, humor, pettishness, excitation, soreness, irritation, irritability, humour, aggravation, snappishness, vexation, annoyance

  2. temper, 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"

    Synonyms:
    liquid body substance, 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, witticism

  3. temper, biliousness, irritability, peevishness, pettishness, snappishness, surlinessnoun

    a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger

    "his temper was well known to all his employees"

    Synonyms:
    crossness, petulance, toughness, irritability, surliness, biliousness, mood, excitability, fussiness, peevishness, pique, humor, pettishness, irritation, humour, choler, snappishness, fretfulness

  4. temper, toughnessverb

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

    Synonyms:
    ruggedness, huskiness, irritability, surliness, biliousness, mood, stamina, peevishness, pique, humor, pettishness, staying power, irritation, humour, formidability, snappishness, toughness

  5. anneal, temper, normalizeverb

    bring to a desired consistency, texture, or hardness by a process of gradually heating and cooling

    "temper glass"

    Synonyms:
    season, chasten, anneal, normalize, moderate, renormalise, harden, renormalize, normalise, mollify

  6. temper, hardenverb

    harden by reheating and cooling in oil

    "temper steel"

    Synonyms:
    season, chasten, anneal, mollify, moderate, indurate, harden, inure, normalize

  7. temperverb

    adjust the pitch (of pianos)

    Synonyms:
    chasten, harden, normalize, season, mollify, anneal, moderate

  8. temper, season, mollifyverb

    make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else; moderate

    "she tempered her criticism"

    Synonyms:
    conciliate, gentle, chasten, flavour, placate, moderate, gruntle, flavor, mollify, harden, appease, pacify, assuage, lenify, normalize, anneal, season

  9. chasten, moderate, temperverb

    restrain

    Synonyms:
    lead, 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

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. tempernoun

    Synonyms:
    mood, disposition, humor, passion

  2. temperverb

    Synonyms:
    qualify, modify, moderate, appease, anneal

Editors Contribution0.0 / 0 votes

  1. mood

    Submitted by anonymous on December 22, 2019  

How to use temper in a sentence?

  1. William Cooper:

    God gives to every man virtue, temper, and understanding.

  2. Marcus Aurelius:

    If you don’t want to be cantankerous, don’t feed your temper, or multiply incidents of anger. Suppress the first impulse to be angry, then begin to count the days on which you don’t get mad.

  3. Author Unknown:

    It is strange that we do not temper our resentment of criticism with a thought for our many faults which have escaped us.

  4. Rand Paul:

    I will have to get better at holding my tongue and holding my temper.

  5. Joseph Farrell:

    If you go in for argument, take care of your temper. Your logic, if you have any, will take care of itself.

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