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Good Temper

Definition: Good Temper

Good Temper

Noun

1. A cheerful and agreeable mood.

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

Synonyms: Good Temper

Synonyms: amiability (n), good humor (n), good humour (n). (additional references)

Antonym: ill humor (n). (additional references)

Synonyms within Context: Good Temper

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Courtesy	Noun: courtesy; respect; good manners, good behavior, good breeding; manners; politeness; Adjective: bienseance, urbanity, comity, gentility, breeding, polish, presence; civility, civilization; amenity, suavity; good temper, good humor; amiability, easy temper, complacency, soft tongue, mansuetude; condescension; (humility); affability, complaisance, pr_venance, amability, gallantry; pink of politeness, pink of courtesy.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Good Temper

English words defined with "good temper": Out of temper. (references)

Specialty definitions using "good temper": Macare. (references)

Photo Album: Good Temper

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	Good temper. Quenching operation following the heat treatment of gun parts in an eastern arsenal. Credit: Library of Congress.
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Familiar Quotations: Good Temper

Author	Quotation
Ralph Waldo Emerson	So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains.
William Hazlitt	Good temper is an estate for life.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions: Good Temper

Expressions using "good temper": be in a good temper ♦ have a good temper. Additional references.
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Modern Translation: Good Temper

Language		Translations for "good temper"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
German		guter Laune sein (to be in a good temper), in guter Laune (in a good temper). (various references)

Hungarian		jókedvű (to be in a very good temper). (various references)

Pig Latin		oodgay empertay.(various references)

Spanish		buen humor (good humour, good mood). (various references)

Swedish		vara på gott humör (be in a good temper). (various references)

Turkish		iyi huylu olmak (have a good temper). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Good Temper

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-e-e-g-m-o-o-p-r-t"
	-2 letters: odometer, podomere, pogromed, promoted.
	-3 letters: groomed, motored, promote, protege, torpedo, tromped, trooped.
	-4 letters: degerm, demote, deperm, deport, emerod, emoted, emoter, gemote, groped, merged, meteor, metope, metred, moored, mooted, mooter, permed, pogrom, ported, premed, redtop, remote, romped, roomed, rooted, temped, temper, teredo, termed, trompe.
	-5 letters: depot, deter, doper, doter, droop, dropt, edger, egret, emote, epode.
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