Intemperate

a.	1.	Indulging any appetite or passion to excess; immoderate in enjoyment or exertion.
	2.	addicted to an excessive or habitual use of alcoholic liquors.
	3.	Excessive; ungovernable; inordinate; violent; immoderate; as, intemperate language, zeal, etc.; intemperate weather. Most do taste through fond intemperate thirst. - Milton. Use not thy mouth to intemperate swearing. - Ecclus. xxiii. 13.
v. t.	1.	To disorder.

Adj.	1.	intemperate - (of weather or climate) not mild; subject to extremes; "an intemperate climate"; "intemperate zones" Antonyms: temperate - (of weather or climate) free from extremes; mild; or characteristic of such weather or climate; "a temperate region"; "the temperate zones"; "temperate plants"
	2.	intemperate - excessive in behavior; "intemperate rage" Antonyms: temperate - not extreme in behavior; "temperate in his habits"; "a temperate response to an insult"; "temperate in his eating and drinking"
	3.	intemperate - given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors

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