temperate
moderate or self-restrained; not extreme in opinion, statement, etc.: a temperate response to an insulting challenge.
moderate as regards indulgence of appetite or passion, especially in the use of alcoholic liquors.
not excessive in degree, as things, qualities, etc.
moderate in respect to temperature; not subject to prolonged extremes of hot or cold weather.
Microbiology. (of a virus) existing in infected host cells but rarely causing lysis.
Origin of temperate
1synonym study For temperate
Other words for temperate
Other words from temperate
- tem·per·ate·ly, adverb
- tem·per·ate·ness, noun
- non·tem·per·ate, adjective
- non·tem·per·ate·ly, adverb
- non·tem·per·ate·ness, noun
- pre·tem·per·ate, adjective
- pre·tem·per·ate·ly, adverb
- un·tem·per·ate, adjective
- un·tem·per·ate·ly, adverb
- un·tem·per·ate·ness, noun
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How to use temperate in a sentence
These infections are primarily detected during winter and spring in temperate climates and are found year-round in tropical and subtropical areas.
COVID-19 may one day come and go like the flu, but we’re not there yet | Kate Baggaley | September 16, 2020 | Popular-ScienceSomething like a tenth of the people who live in the South and the Southwest — from South Carolina to Alabama to Texas to Southern California — decide to move north in search of a better economy and a more temperate environment.
Climate Change Will Force a New American Migration | by Abrahm Lustgarten, photography by Meridith Kohut | September 15, 2020 | ProPublicaThe team still doesn’t know if the gas actually originates at the “temperate” heights observed in the Venusian clouds, or whether it’s produced closer to the surface and then rises.
Gas spotted in Venus’s clouds could be a sign of alien life | Neel Patel | September 14, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewIn temperate climates, workers of this species forage alone, often for beetles.
What you need to know about ‘murder hornets’ | Susan Milius | July 20, 2020 | Science News For StudentsPrairies are a type of temperate grassland, similar to savannahs or steppes.
Houston, where I have been working as a consultant, hardly qualifies as one of the most physically attractive or temperate cities.
Battle of the Upstarts: Houston vs. San Francisco Bay | Joel Kotkin | October 5, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTMany Indians regard it as a quasi-mythical place, a land of lush hills, temperate climate, martial men, and handsome women.
From a lazy young man about town, I had become active, energetic, temperate, and above all—oh, above all else—ambitious.
Read ‘The King in Yellow,’ the ‘True Detective’ Reference That’s the Key to the Show | Robert W. Chambers | February 20, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTOregonians suffer through them in anticipation of the blissfully sunny and temperate summer.
In conversation, he is no less articulate, but he is decidedly more temperate, cheerful, even conciliatory.
The climate of those mountains is cold rather than temperate, and less healthful than sickly.
The same change occurs, though to a much smaller extent, in the soil in temperate climates.
Elements of Agricultural Chemistry | Thomas AndersonHe was of frugal and temperate habits, a wiry man at the height of his physical powers, with lean flanks and a deep chest.
Uncanny Tales | VariousWhile the tobacco of the tropics is the finest in flavor, the more temperate regions produce the finest and best colored leaf.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce | E. R. Billings.Doubtless the varieties grown in the tropics will be much finer than the varieties grown in a more temperate region.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce | E. R. Billings.
British Dictionary definitions for temperate
/ (ˈtɛmpərɪt, ˈtɛmprɪt) /
having a climate intermediate between tropical and polar; moderate or mild in temperature
mild in quality or character; exhibiting temperance
Origin of temperate
1Derived forms of temperate
- temperately, adverb
- temperateness, noun
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Scientific definitions for temperate
[ tĕm′pər-ĭt ]
Marked by moderate temperatures, weather, or climate.
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