distemperate

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Immoderate, excessive. obsolete
    — Thou hast thy brain distemperate, and out of rule.
  2. Not temperate, of no good influence for one's confort or soundness; (figuratively) unwholesome, stormy. obsolete
  3. Not properly tempered; disordered through excess or deficiency of some constituent; (by extensions, of bodily or mental condition) disordered, out of order; diseased, out of health; ill-conditioned. obsolete

词形变化

more distemperate comparative most distemperate superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
distemperately
相关词
distemper temper

词源

First attested in 1398, in Middle English; inherited from Middle English distemperat(e), borrowed from Medieval Latin distemperātus (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from dis- + temperātus, perfect passive participle of temperō (“to temperate oneself, show restraint”).
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