temperateadjective
uk/ˈtem.pər.ət//ˈtem.prət/us/ˈtem.pɚ.ət/temperate adjective (WEATHER)
environment (of weather conditions) neither very hot nor very cold:
a temperate climate
biology Temperate plants grow naturally in places where the weather is neither very hot nor very cold.
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Describing good weather
- anticyclone
- be set fair idiom
- calm
- clemency
- clement
- cloudless
- dry
- fair
- fine
- glorious
- mild
- set
- settled
- summery
- sun shower
- sun-drenched
- sun-kissed
- sunny
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Cool
temperate adjective (BEHAVIOUR)
formal If someone's behaviour is temperate, it is calm and controlled.
Opposite
intemperate
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Controlling emotions
- bottle
- bottle sth up
- brave
- breaking point
- choke
- choke sth back
- collected
- compose
- cork
- emotional blackmail idiom
- frustrated
- give voice to sth idiom
- gulp sth back
- harden
- put on a brave face idiom
- repress
- repressed
- self-possession
- steadily
- swallow
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