temper

Usage

• temperamental

  If you are temperamental, you tend to become easily upset and experience unpredictable mood swings.

• temperance

  If you show temperance, you limit yourself so that you don’t do too much of something; you act in a controlled and well-balanced way.

• intemperate

  (of weather or climate) not mild

• tamper

  play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly

• temperament

  your usual mood

• temperate

  (of weather or climate) free from extremes

• temperature

  the degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment (corresponding to its molecular activity)

• tempered

  made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment

• tempering

  moderating by making more temperate