temperately

1. 1.

   with restraint

   “he used the privileges of his office temperately”
2. 2.

   without extravagance

   “these preferences are temperately stated”
3. 3.

   in a sparing manner; without overindulgence

   “he ate and drank abstemiously”

   “indulged temperately in cocktails”

   Synonymsabstemiously

Questions about temperately

What does temperately mean?

temperately means "with restraint". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in temperately?

temperately has 5 syllables: tem-pe-ra-te-ly. The stress falls on "ra".

What is another word for temperately?

Close synonyms include abstemiously. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is temperately a common word?

temperately is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.