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say it: TEM-pruht
temperate is an adjective meaning "(of weather or climate) free from extremes; mild; or characteristic of such weather or climate". It is pronounced /ˈtɛmpɹət/ — TEM-pruht. It carries 3 recorded senses.
(of weather or climate) free from extremes; mild; or characteristic of such weather or climate
“a temperate region”
“the temperate zones”
“temperate plants”
not extreme in behavior
“temperate in his habits”
“a temperate response to an insult”
“temperate in his eating and drinking”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for temperate come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.