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Even-tempered

Definition: Even-tempered

Even-tempered

Adjective

1. Not easily irritated; "an equable temper"; "not everyone shared his placid temperament"; "remained placid despite the repeated delays".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "even-tempered" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1869. (references)

Synonyms: Even-tempered

Synonyms: equable (adj), good-tempered (adj), placid (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Even-tempered

Specialty definitions using "even-tempered": Fair, Frogs. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Even-tempered

"Even-tempered" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Even-tempered" is used about 11 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%11106,044

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Derived & Related Names: Even-tempered

The following table summarizes names derived from the word "even-tempered".
 
NameGenderLanguageMeaning
JesuiN/ABiblical

Even-tempered

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

 

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Modern Translations: Even-tempered

Language Translations for "even-tempered"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Finnish

  

sävyisä (docile, manageable, meek, mild, tractable). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

心の平ら . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

""ろのたいら. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

even-tempereday

   

Russian 

  

уравновешенный (balanced, even, even tempered, even-minded, good tempered, level, level headed, levelheaded, level-headed, sober minded, sober-minded, well balanced), спокойный (calm, calmer, composed, cool-headed, cosh, douce, easeful, easy, even tempered, even-minded, imperturbable, laid back, laid-back, level headed, placid, quiet, reposeful, secure, sedate, serene, settled, sober-blooded, still, tranquil, untroubled). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

bình thản (dispassionate, even-minded, sedate), điềm đạm (even-minded, level, level-headed, nerve, sober-minded, staid). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Even-tempered

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-e-e-e-e-m-n-p-r-t-v"

-3 letters: prevented.

-4 letters: deepener, repented, repetend, tempered, veneered.

-5 letters: emender, entered, everted, metered, petered, preened, premeet, preteen, pretend, prevent, reedmen, terpene.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Even-tempered


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

45 76 65 6E 2D 74 65 6D 70 65 72 65 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01110110 01100101 01101110 00101101 01110100 01100101 01101101 01110000 01100101 01110010 01100101 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#118 &#101 &#110 &#45 &#116 &#101 &#109 &#112 &#101 &#114 &#101 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0076 0065 006E 002D 0074 0065 006D 0070 0065 0072 0065 0064

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

39887180158671798271847170

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage Frequency
5. Names: Derived from
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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