Thesaurus / temper
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synonyms for temper
- attitude
- climate
- disposition
- humor
- mood
- personality
- spirit
- temperament
- atmosphere
- attribute
- aura
- character
- complexion
- condition
- constitution
- drift
- individualism
- individuality
- leaning
- makeup
- mind
- nature
- orientation
- outlook
- peculiarity
- posture
- property
- quality
- scene
- soul
- state
- strain
- style
- tendency
- tenor
- thing
- timbre
- tone
- trend
- type
- vein
- way
- frame of mind
- anger
- fury
- impatience
- ire
- outburst
- passion
- rage
- resentment
- sensitivity
- tantrum
- acerbity
- annoyance
- crossness
- dander
- excitability
- fit
- fretfulness
- furor
- heat
- huffiness
- irascibility
- irritability
- irritation
- miff
- peevishness
- petulance
- pugnacity
- snit
- sourness
- stew
- sullenness
- surliness
- tartness
- tear
- tiff
- tizzy
- touchiness
- wax
- bad humor
- cantankerousness
- grouchiness
- hotheadedness
- ill humor
- short fuse
- slow burn
- abate
- allay
- alleviate
- assuage
- cool
- curb
- dilute
- ease
- lessen
- mitigate
- mollify
- restrain
- soften
- soothe
- tone down
- weaken
- adjust
- admix
- modulate
- pacify
- palliate
- relieve
- revamp
- soft pedal
- switch
- transmogrify
- chill out
- cool out
- fine tune
- make reasonable
- take the bite out of
- take the edge off
- take the sting out of
- anneal
- bake
- braze
- cement
- chill
- congeal
- dry
- indurate
- mold
- petrify
- set
- solidify
- starch
- steel
- stiffen
- strengthen
- toughen
- toughen up
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- aggravate
- agitate
- enlarge
- extend
- incite
- increase
- intensify
- irritate
- magnify
- provoke
- raise
- strengthen
- trouble
- upset
- worry
- worsen
- accuse
- blame
- condemn
- bend
- excite
- flex
- infuriate
- soften
- discourage
- dissuade
- liquefy
- melt
- separate
- soften
- weaken
- aggravate
- agitate
- bend
- excite
- flex
- infuriate
- upset
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He could be moody and irritable in the best of times, but now it was ratcheted up to new levels of intensity, and it seemed like I was often bearing the brunt of his foul temper.
WHEN YOUR FATHER FALLS APARTEUGENE ROBINSONDECEMBER 23, 2020OZYJaMarcus had always been slow to anger, but DeArthur noticed he was developing a temper.
FOR YEARS, JAMARCUS CREWS TRIED TO GET A NEW KIDNEY, BUT CORPORATE HEALTHCARE STOOD IN THE WAYBY LIZZIE PRESSERDECEMBER 15, 2020PROPUBLICAIt felt like really bad parenting — your child threw a temper tantrum and you gave him the cake just to shut him up.
UNDECIDED, WITH JUST A WEEK TO GONICK FOURIEZOSOCTOBER 27, 2020OZYHe had a temper we couldn’t predict, but in the afternoons, the two of us could spend hours exploring the world inside his parking lot.
FICTION: QUIET EARTH PHILOSOPHYKATIE MCLEANOCTOBER 21, 2020MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWI can’t rationalize as much as I want to why I was a yeller or continue to have a bad temper.
MOMOFUKU’S DAVID CHANG ON THE BIG CHANGES THE RESTAURANT INDUSTRY NEEDS TO MAKE TO SURVIVEBETH KOWITTSEPTEMBER 14, 2020FORTUNEThe Marshals were inclined to attribute their disgrace to the ill-will of Berthier and not to the temper of Napoleon.
NAPOLEON'S MARSHALSR. P. DUNN-PATTISONBut he marred it all by a temper so ungovernable that in Paris there was current a byword, "Explosive as Garnache."
ST. MARTIN'S SUMMERRAFAEL SABATINIIf any one has lost his temper, as well as his money, he takes good care not to show it; to do so here would be indeed bad form.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLSVictor was the younger son and brother—a tete montee, with a temper which invited violence and a will which no ax could break.
THE AWAKENING AND SELECTED SHORT STORIESKATE CHOPINAll these exhibitions of temper and anger result from what I have pointed out to your Majesty in many other letters.
THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, 1493-1898, VOLUME XX, 1621-1624VARIOUSWORDS RELATED TO TEMPER
- acrimony
- animosity
- annoyance
- antagonism
- blow up
- cat fit
- chagrin
- choler
- conniption
- dander
- disapprobation
- displeasure
- distemper
- enmity
- exasperation
- fury
- gall
- hatred
- hissy fit
- huff
- ill humor
- ill temper
- impatience
- indignation
- infuriation
- irascibility
- ire
- irritability
- irritation
- miff
- outrage
- passion
- peevishness
- petulance
- pique
- rage
- rankling
- resentment
- slow burn
- soreness
- stew
- storm
- tantrum
- temper
- tiff
- umbrage
- vexation
- violence
- acrimony
- animosity
- annoyance
- antagonism
- blow up
- cat fit
- chagrin
- choler
- conniption
- dander
- disapprobation
- displeasure
- distemper
- enmity
- exasperation
- fury
- gall
- hatred
- hissy fit
- huff
- ill humor
- ill temper
- impatience
- indignation
- infuriation
- irascibility
- ire
- irritability
- irritation
- mad
- miff
- outrage
- passion
- peevishness
- petulance
- pique
- rage
- rankling
- resentment
- slow burn
- soreness
- stew
- storm
- tantrum
- temper
- tiff
- umbrage
- vexation
- violence
- air
- angle
- approach
- belief
- demeanor
- disposition
- frame of mind
- headset
- inclination
- leaning
- mental state
- mindset
- mood
- notion
- opinion
- outlook
- perspective
- philosophy
- point of view
- position
- posture
- predilection
- reaction
- school of thought
- sentiment
- slant
- stance
- stand
- standpoint
- temper
- temperament
- thinking
- vantage point
- view
- viewpoint
- way of looking
- way of thinking
- where one is at
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