Temper

Noun

 * 1) A tendency to anger or lose patience easily.
 * He has quite a temper when dealing with salespeople.
 * 1) State of mind.
 * 2) * 1719- Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
 * ...I must testify, from my experience, that a temper of peace, thankfulness, love, and affection, is much the more proper frame for prayer than that of terror and discomposure...
 * 1) The heat treatment to which a metal or other material has been subjected; a material that has undergone a particular heat treatment.

Derived terms

 * lose temper
 * short temper
 * short-tempered

Verb

 * 1) To moderate or control.
 * Temper your language around children.
 * 1) To heat-treat a material, particularly a metal.
 * Next, temper the steel by dropping the white hot metal into cold water.
 * 1) To mix clay, plaster or mortar with water to obtain the proper consistency

Adjectives for Temper
generous; reckless; subjective; suspended; creative; critical; gusty; querulous; peevish; suspicious;  inflammable; gracious charitable;  terrible;  ethereal;  youthful judicial;  penurious;  violent;  dauntless ruffled; indolent; collective (pi); frayed bad; easy; convivial; uncertain; predominant; revengeful; skeptical; chivalrous; complacent; malignant; malleable; slumbering; imperious; independent; fixed; haughty; jarring; serene; buoyant; amiable; indifferent; chastened; earthly; ruthless; jovial; unspent; unsunned; fiery; lively; loquaclous; self-willed; passionate; columned; delicate; noble; docile; imperturbable; characteristic; mirthful; sweet; queer; philosophic; irritable; lethargic; meek; placid; sunny; equable; changeable; curious; polemical; cold; irreligious; merry; conciliatory; unforgiving; fretful; invincible; pedantic; heroic; unaltered; keen; despondent; ungovernable; inquisitive; impatient; admirable; combative; childish; turbulent; choleric; gunpowder; aspiring; dignified; villainous; boisterous; resentful; coddled; schizoid; benevolent; calm; ferocious; submissive; confident; crusading; eddying; iron-like; tart; feeble.

Verbs for Temper
allay—; assuage—; blunt—; calm—; chasten—; compose—; curb—; dulcify—; exhibit —; fire—; ignite—; lull—; manifest—; moderate—; mollify—; pacify—; palliate—; quell—;  quench—;   restrain—;   rule—; smooth—; sober—; subdue—; sweeten—; —blazes; —erupts; —explodes; —flames; —flares; —foams; —foments; —fumes; — seethes; —simmers; —snaps.

Thesaurus
Irish, abate, adjust, adjust to, allay, alleviate, alter, anger, animus, anneal, appease, aptitude, assuage, atmosphere, attain majority, attemper, attribute, aura, bad temper, balance, bank the fire, be tough, beef up, bent, besprinkle, bias, bloom, blunt, body-build, box in, brace, brace up, brand, breathe, brew, buttress, calcify, callous, calmness, case harden, cast, character, characteristic, characteristics, chasten, chisel temper, churlishness, circumscribe, climate, color, come of age, come to maturity, complexion, composition, composure, condition, confirm, conniption, constituents, constitution, constrain, control, cool, coolness, cornify, crasis, cue, curb, cushion, damp, dampen, dander, de-emphasize, deaden, decoct, develop, dharma, diathesis, die temper, dilute, diminish, disposition, downplay, dredge, drift, dull, dye, ease, eccentricity, endure, entincture, equanimity, ethos, extenuate, fiber, fierce temper, fiery temper, firm, firmness, fit, flavor, fledge, flower, fortify, fossilize, frame, frame of mind, fury, genius, gird, grain, grow, grow up, habit, hang tough, harden, hardness, hardness scale, heart, heat treating, hedge, hedge about, hot blood, hot temper, hotheadedness, hue, huffishness, humor, humors, idiosyncrasy, ilk, ill humor, ill temper, imbrue, imbue, impregnate, inclination, indenter, individualism, individuality, indurate, infiltrate, infuse, instill, invigorate, irascibility, ire, irritability, irritable temper, keep within bounds, kidney, kind, lapidify, lay, leaning, leave the nest, leaven, lenify, lessen, lighten, limit, lithify, make, makeup, mature, mellow, mental set, mettle, mind, mind-set, mitigate, moderate, modify, modulate, mold, mollify, mood, morale, narrow, nature, nerve, note, obtund, orientation, ossify, outburst, outlook, pacify, paddy, palliate, passion, peculiarity, peevishness, penetrate, permeate, personality, pervade, petrify, petulance, physique, play down, posture, precipitation hardening, predilection, predisposition, preference, proclivity, prop, propensity, property, qualify, quality, rage, razor temper, reach manhood, reach twenty-one, reach voting age, reduce, reduce the temperature, refresh, regulate by, reinforce, reinvigorate, relax, restrain, restrengthen, restrict, ripen, sang-froid, saturate, saw file temper, season, self-control, self-possession, set, set conditions, set limits, set temper, settle down, shore up, short temper, slacken, slant, slow down, smother, sober, sober down, soften, solidity, somatotype, soothe, sort, soundness, spindle temper, spirit, spirits, spunkiness, stability, stamp, state, state of mind, staunchness, steel, steep, stiffen, stifle, stoutness, strain, streak, strengthen, stripe, sturdiness, style, subdue, suchness, suffuse, support, suppress, surliness, sustain, system, tame, tantrum, temper tantrum, temperament, tempering, tendency, tenor, timbre, tincture, tinge, toga virilis, tone, tone down, tool temper, toughen, transfuse, trend, tune down, turn, turn of mind, twist, type, undergird, underplay, vein, vitrify, volatility, warm temper, warp, wax, way, weaken

Etymology
From temperen: <  *undefined: <  temperare: < tempus:; see temporal:.

Noun

 * Danish:
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 * German: Gereiztheit,
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 * Danish: gemyt, ,
 * Dutch:, gemoed
 * Finnish:, mielenlaatu,


 * Serbian:
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 * Dutch: uitharden
 * Finnish: karkaisu


 * German: Anlassen, Ausheizen
 * Simplified Chinese:


 * Portuguese: pavio-curto, tempero (Brazil)

Verb

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 * Finnish:, lämpökäsitellä
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 * : moderar, temperar