Temperate - English meaning

adjective

Indulging only very moderately in something, especially food and drink.

Usage examples:

‘we only had a bottle.’ ‘very abstemious of you.’

adjective

Not doing things that give you pleasure, especially not eating good food or drinking alcohol

adjective

Refraining from an activity or from the consumption of something, especially alcohol.

Usage examples:

The patients are best advised to be totally abstinent from alcohol

adjective

Completely avoiding something such as alcohol or sex

Usage examples:

Sexually abstinent, he has now been abstinent from alcohol for four years.

adjective

Quite enjoyable and pleasurable; pleasant.

Usage examples:

A cheerful and agreeable companion

adjective

Pleasant; pleasing

Usage examples:

She has an agreeable personality., we prefer to reach a solution agreeable to all interested partie…

adjective

Pleasant or pleasing

Usage examples:

We spent a most agreeable evening by the river.

adjective

Characterized by severe self-discipline and abstention from all forms of indulgence, typically for religious reasons.

Usage examples:

An ascetic life of prayer, fasting, and manual labour

noun

A person who follows an ascetic life.

Usage examples:

The composition of hymns of the rig-veda was done by hindu recluses, ascetics, rishis and sages roo…

adjective

Avoiding physical pleasures and living a simple life, often for religious reasons

Usage examples:

They live a very ascetic life.

adjective

Severe or strict in manner or attitude.

Usage examples:

He was an austere man, with a rigidly puritanical outlook

adjective

Very simple, with only the things that are absolutely necessary, especially because of severe limits on money or goods

Usage examples:

An austere childhood during the war

adjective

Plain and without decoration or unnecessary details

Usage examples:

The courtroom was a large, dark chamber, an austere place.

adjective

Characterized by pleasantly warm weather.

Usage examples:

The balmy days of late summer

adjective

(of weather) pleasantly warm

Usage examples:

A balmy summer evening

adjective

Gentle and kindly.

Usage examples:

His benign but firm manner

adjective

Pleasant and kind

Usage examples:

A benign old lady

adjective

A benign growth is not cancer and is not likely to be harmful

Usage examples:

A benign tumour

adjective

(of weather) mild.

Usage examples:

It is a very clement day

adjective

Clement weather is pleasant or not severe

Usage examples:

It's very clement for the time of year.

adjective

Not showing emotion; having one's feelings under control.

Usage examples:

His every word seemed to be calm and controlled

verb

Determine the behaviour or supervise the running of.

Usage examples:

He was appointed to control the company's marketing strategy

adjective

Involving careful, intentional actions that limit risk or danger

Usage examples:

Controlled explosion police carried out a controlled explosion on a suspicious vehicle., controlled…

adjective

Showing a controlled form of behaviour or way of working.

Usage examples:

A disciplined approach to management

verb

Train (someone) to obey rules or a code of behaviour, using punishment to correct disobedience.

Usage examples:

Many parents have been afraid to discipline their children

adjective

Behaving in a very controlled way

Usage examples:

The young gymnasts who won the competition were a talented and disciplined team., those children ar…

adjective

Treating people equally without favouritism or discrimination.

Usage examples:

The group has achieved fair and equal representation for all its members

adverb

Without cheating or trying to achieve unjust advantage.

Usage examples:

No one could say he played fair

noun

A beautiful woman.

Usage examples:

Pursuing his fair in a solitary street

adjective

Having or showing a mild, kind, or tender temperament or character.

Usage examples:

A gentle, sensitive man

verb

Make or become gentle.

Usage examples:

Cobb's tone gentled a little

noun

A maggot, especially the larva of a blowfly, used as bait.

Usage examples:

He put the gentle on the hook

adjective

Not severe, serious, or harsh.

Usage examples:

Mild criticism

noun

A kind of dark beer not strongly flavoured with hops.

Usage examples:

They still brew a delicious dark mild which is one of my favourite drinks.

adjective

Average in amount, intensity, quality, or degree.

Usage examples:

We walked at a moderate pace

noun

A person who holds moderate views, especially in politics.

Usage examples:

An unlikely alliance of radicals and moderates

verb

Make or become less extreme, intense, rigorous, or violent.

Usage examples:

I shall not moderate my criticism

adjective

Giving a sense of happy satisfaction or enjoyment.

Usage examples:

A very pleasant evening

adjective

Enjoyable or attractive, or (of a person) friendly and easy to like

Usage examples:

We spent a pleasant afternoon at the beach., she had a pleasant manner and was popular with everyon…

adjective

Characterized by reserve or moderation; unemotional or dispassionate.

Usage examples:

His restrained, gentlemanly voice

verb

Prevent (someone or something) from doing something; keep under control or within limits.

Usage examples:

The need to restrain public expenditure

adjective

Having strong control over your emotions and actions

Usage examples:

He's always seemed very self-controlled, so i was amazed by his sudden outburst in the office.

adjective

A self-denying person gives up what they want so that other people can have it, or because they feel it is morally right for them to give it up

Usage examples:

Far from being a self-denying hermit, reece enjoyed the finest clothes he could afford., she was br…

adjective

Choosing or characterized by abstinence from alcohol.

Usage examples:

A teetotal lifestyle

adjective

Never drinking alcohol or opposed to the drinking of alcohol