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Meaning of distemperate | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C1

Definitions

  1. Immoderate, excessive.
  2. Not temperate, of no good influence for one's confort or soundness; (figuratively) unwholesome, stormy.
  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.

Examples

“Thou hast thy brain distemperate, and out of rule.”

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This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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