| 单词 | intemperance |
| 释义 | intemperance (once / 2837 pages) n Intemperance is when you can't do anything half way, or hold yourself back. You might describe your inability to eat a single slice of cake — instead, gobbling the whole thing — as intemperance. When someone isn't able to temper — or moderate — his actions, he is at risk of intemperance. Your uncle shows intemperance when he yells furiously at everyone around him every time he feels angry, and your sister's intemperance might come out in her terrible shopping habit. The opposite of intemperance is moderation. The Latin root word, intemperantia, means "immoderation or excess," and was originally used in English to describe the weather. WORD FAMILYintemperance: intemperances+/distemper: distempered, distempering, distempers/temper: distemper, temperance, tempered, tempering, tempers/temperance: intemperance, temperances/tempered: ill-tempered, temperedest, temperedly, untempered/tempering: temperings USAGE EXAMPLESAnd instead of restraining his intemperance, as his advisers often told him to, he let it rip. Economist(Nov 10, 2016) Before and since the Brexit vote, and during the US presidential campaign, invective, lies, hate speech, bullying, intemperance and intolerance became the new norms. The Guardian(Nov 08, 2016) It would secure better governance for the country while minimizing the distorting effects of narcissism, intemperance, and “pussy grabbing” on the body politic. The New Yorker(Oct 14, 2016) 1n excess in action and immoderate indulgence of bodily appetites, especially in passion or indulgence the intemperance of their language Syn|Hypo|Hyper intemperateness, self-indulgence fling, spree a brief indulgence of your impulses dissipation, dissolution, licentiousness, looseness, profligacydissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure jaga bout of drinking or drug taking spending spreea brief period of extravagant spending humoring, indulgence, indulging, pampering the act of indulging or gratifying a desire 2n consumption of alcoholic drinks Syn|Hypo|Hyper intemperateness boozing, crapulence, drink, drinking, drunkenness the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess drinking bouta long period of drinking vice a specific form of evildoing 3n the quality of being intemperate Ant|Hypo|Hyper moderation, temperance the trait of avoiding excesses gluttony habitual eating to excess greediness, hoggishness, piggishnessan excessive desire for food edacity, esurience, rapaciousness, rapacity, voraciousness, voracityextreme gluttony unrestraint the quality of lacking restraint |
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