temper
/ˈtɛmpə/
A general tendency or orientation towards a certain type of mood, a volatile state; a habitual way of thinking, behaving or reacting; State of mind; mood
- plural
- tempers
Meanings
- 1
A general tendency or orientation towards a certain type of mood, a volatile state; a habitual way of thinking, behaving or reacting
Tom loses his temper easily.
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Tom has a bad temper.
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- 2
State of mind; mood
- 3
A tendency to become angry
- 4
Anger; a fit of anger
- 5
Calmness of mind; moderation; equanimity; composure
- 6
Constitution of body; the mixture or relative proportion of the four humours: blood, choler, phlegm, and melancholyrare
- 7
Middle state or course; mean; mediumrare
- 8
The state of any compound substance which results from the mixture of various ingredients; due mixture of different qualitiesrare
- 9
The heat treatment to which a metal or other material has been subjected; a material that has undergone a particular heat treatmentrare
- 10
The state of a metal or other substance, especially as to its hardness, produced by some process of heating or coolingrare