Clues for the word "TEMPER"
We've had 50 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 83 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Quick crossword on September 26, 2025.
Definition of temper
- v. t. - To mingle in due proportion; to prepare by combining; to modify, as by adding some new element; to qualify, as by an ingredient; hence, to soften; to mollify; to assuage; to soothe; to calm.
- v. t. - To fit together; to adjust; to accomodate.
- v. t. - To bring to a proper degree of hardness; as, to temper iron or steel.
- v. t. - To govern; to manage.
- v. t. - To moisten to a proper consistency and stir thoroughly, as clay for making brick, loam for molding, etc.
- v. t. - To adjust, as the mathematical scale to the actual scale, or to that in actual use.
- n. - The state of any compound substance which results from the mixture of various ingredients; due mixture of different qualities; just combination; as, the temper of mortar.
- n. - Constitution of body; temperament; in old writers, the mixture or relative proportion of the four humors, blood, choler, phlegm, and melancholy.
- n. - Disposition of mind; the constitution of the mind, particularly with regard to the passions and affections; as, a calm temper; a hasty temper; a fretful temper.
- n. - Calmness of mind; moderation; equanimity; composure; as, to keep one's temper.
- n. - Heat of mind or passion; irritation; proneness to anger; -- in a reproachful sense.
- n. - The state of a metal or other substance, especially as to its hardness, produced by some process of heating or cooling; as, the temper of iron or steel.
- n. - Middle state or course; mean; medium.
- n. - Milk of lime, or other substance, employed in the process formerly used to clarify sugar.
- v. i. - To accord; to agree; to act and think in conformity.
- v. i. - To have or get a proper or desired state or quality; to grow soft and pliable.
Referring Clues
- Word repeated after someone starts to show anger
- State of mind
- Soften or harden
- When repeated, statement after an explosion
- Strengthen, as steel
- Moderate
- Frame of mind
- Short fuse, so to speak
- Disposition
- Composure
- What a hothead may lose
- Bad thing to lose
- Mood
- Toughen steel
- It may be explosive
- Heat of mind
- Ager
- Mood or nature
- Mark of a hothead
- Mitigate
- Type of tantrum
- You might lose yours in an argument
- Tendency to anger
- ___ tantrum
- Paddy is moderate
- Demeanour
- (Calm or furious) disposition
- Even when frayed, it should be kept
- Moderate one's anger
- Soften - disposition
- Moderate or strong show of irritation
- Mood, maybe angry
- Could be an extreme show of anger or just moderate
- Moderate - mood
- Paddy's mood
- See 10
- Tone down fit of rage
- Calm a fit
- You'd be angry if you lost it
- Cool cushion
- Moderate anger
- Show of anger as salesman met setback?
- Moderate, English politician during short period of office
- Agent satisfied about mood
- Tantrum
- Restrain Paddy
- Bad thing to flare up
- Anger, it seems, may harden
- A bad thing to lose
- To moderate
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Quick - September 26, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - August 22, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - August 01, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - January 06, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - March 26, 2024
- USA Today - January 23, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - August 24, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 18, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - August 01, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - July 31, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - June 28, 2023
- LA Times - March 31, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - January 11, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 14, 2022
- Family Time - September 04, 2022
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 11, 2022
- Evening Standard Quick - June 20, 2022
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 08, 2017
- Netword - November 28, 2017
- Netword - October 10, 2017
- New York Times - October 10, 2017
- Daily Cryptic - August 01, 2017
- Evening Standard Quick - July 13, 2017
- Mirror Classic - July 02, 2017
- Evening Standard Quick - June 19, 2017
- Mirror Classic - June 13, 2017
- Guardian Cryptic - June 05, 2017
- Penny Dell Daily - May 15, 2017
- Evening Standard Quick - January 24, 2017
- Guardian Cryptic - October 10, 2016
- And in 53 more crossword puzzles...