temper
A general tendency or orientation towards a certain type of mood, a volatile state; a habitual way of thinking, behaving or reacting.
Example
“to have a good, bad, or calm temper”
Other meanings
State of mind; mood.
A tendency to become angry.
“Mind your hasty temper!”
Synonyms
- mood
- humour
Related words
- temperish
- temperless
- bad-tempered
- even-tempered
- temper of the times
- bad temper
- good-tempered
- hot-tempered
- ill-tempered
- keep one's temper
- lose one's temper
- out of temper
Example sentences
Word history
From Old English "ġetemprian".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “temper” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.