Definitions for temper

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temper tem·per

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IPA: /ˈtɛm pər/

Temper is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 90 anagrams from letters in temper (eemprt).

Definitions for temper

noun

1. a particular state of mind or feelings.
2. habit of mind, especially with respect to irritability or patience, outbursts of anger, or the like; disposition:
3. heat of mind or passion, shown in outbursts of anger, resentment, etc.
4. calm disposition or state of mind:
5. a substance added to something to modify its properties or qualities.
6. Metallurgy. the degree of hardness and strength imparted to a metal, as by quenching, heat treatment, or cold working. the percentage of carbon in tool steel. the operation of tempering.
7. Archaic. a middle course; compromise.
8. Obsolete. the constitution or character of a substance.

verb (used with object)

1. to moderate or mitigate:
2. to soften or tone down.
3. to bring to a proper, suitable, or desirable state by or as by blending or admixture.
4. to moisten, mix, and work up into proper consistency, as clay or mortar.
5. Metallurgy. to impart strength or toughness to (steel or cast iron) by heating and cooling.
6. to produce internal stresses in (glass) by sudden cooling from low red heat; toughen.
7. to tune (a keyboard instrument, as a piano, organ, or harpsichord) so as to make the tones available in different keys or tonalities.
8. to modify (color) by mixing with a medium.
9. Archaic. to combine or blend in due proportions.
10. Archaic. to pacify.

verb (used without object)

1. to be or become tempered.

Origin of temper

before 1000; (v.) Middle English tempren, Old English temprian Latin temperāre to divide or proportion duly, temper; (noun) Middle English: proportion, derivative of the v.

Examples for temper

She is to be pitied—she cannot either like or dislike with temper!

If she was in a good temper, she was in a good temper; if she was in a bad temper, why there she was, she and her temper!

"Never mind, brother," replied the good Deacon, recovering his temper.

She placidly tells people she is dreaming until her frantic father finds her again and loses his temper.

We all, indeed, once thought your temper soft and amiable: but why was it?

It was no wonder, especially when he saw who the singer was, that he should lose his temper.

Again, the Israeli temper is hot and quick, sometimes reason becomes blinded and emotions take control.

He killed his own son and heir by whacking him over the head with the monarchal staff in a tsar-ish fit of temper.

“When I was a kid I used to have temper tantrums on the basketball court,” he says.

He is said to have received a warning from the overall al Qaeda organization to temper his videos.