Definition of "intemperate" adjective comparative more intemperate , superlative most intemperate
Lacking moderation , temper or control . quotations examples
Quotations Constantine engaged himself , by a solemn promise , to deliver Italy from the Goths ; advanced as far as the banks of the Po ; and after alarming , rather than assisting , his pusillanimous ally , hastily returned to the palace of Arles , to celebrate , with intemperate luxury , his vain and ostentatious triumph .
1781, Edward Gibbon, chapter XXXI, in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume III, London: […] W[illiam] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […]
verb third-person singular simple present intemperates , present participle intemperating , simple past and past participle intemperated