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Temperate is a related term of agreeable.


As adjectives the difference between temperate and agreeable

is that temperate is moderate; not excessive; as, temperate heat; a temperate climate while agreeable is pleasing, either to the mind or senses; pleasant; grateful.

As a verb temperate

is (obsolete) to render temperate; to moderate; to soften; to temper.

As a noun agreeable is

something pleasing; anything that is agreeable.

temperate

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Moderate; not excessive; as, temperate heat; a temperate climate.
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  • *:Hepaticology, outside the temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere, still lies deep in the shadow cast by that ultimate "closet taxonomist," Franz Stephani—a ghost whose shadow falls over us all.
  • *(rfdate) (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
  • *:She is not hot, but temperate as the morn.
  • *(rfdate) (1809-1892)
  • *:That sober freedom out of which there springs Our loyal passion for our temperate kings.
  • Moderate in the indulgence of the natural appetites or passions; as, temperate in eating and drinking.
  • *(rfdate) (Benjamin Franklin) (1706-1790)
  • *:Be sober and temperate , and you will be healthy.
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  • *:I am a temperate man and have made it a rule not to drink before luncheon. But I was so much ashamed of my first feeling about Gorman that I thought it well to break my rule.I gave my vote for whisky and soda as the more thorough-going drink of the two. A cocktail is seldom more than a mouthful.
  • Proceeding from temperance.
  • *(rfdate) (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
  • *:The temperate sleeps, and spirits light as air.
  • Living in an environment that is temperate, not extreme.
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    * (geology) temperate zone, that part of the earth which lies between either tropic and the corresponding polar circle; -- so called because the heat is less than in the torrid zone, and the cold less than in the frigid zones.

    Verb

    (temperat)
  • (obsolete) To render temperate; to moderate; to soften; to temper.
  • :* It inflames temperance, and temperates wrath. Marston .

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    agreeable

    English

    (Webster 1913)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Pleasing, either to the mind or senses; pleasant; grateful.
    • agreeable manners
    agreeable remarks
    an agreeable person
    fruit agreeable to the taste
  • * (rfdate) (Oliver Goldsmith):
    • A train of agreeable reveries.
  • (colloquial) Willing; ready to agree or consent.
  • * (rfdate) (Hugh Latimer):
    • These Frenchmen give unto the said captain of Calais a great sum of money, so that he will be but content and agreeable that they may enter into the said town.
  • Agreeing or suitable; conformable; correspondent; concordant; adapted; .
  • * (rfdate) (w, Roger L'Estrange):
    • That which is agreeable to the nature of one thing, is many times contrary to the nature of another.
  • In pursuance, conformity, or accordance; (used adverbially)
    • Agreeable to the order of the day, the House took up the report.

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something pleasing; anything that is agreeable.
  • * 1855 , Blackwood's magazine (volume 77, page 331)
    • The disagreeables of travelling are necessary evils, to be encountered for the sake of the agreeables of resting and looking round you.

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