intemperance

Roget-categorie 954

6. Words relating to the sentient and moral
› 6.4. Moral affections
›› 6.4.4. Moral practice

#954. Intemperance

zelfstandig naamwoord

intemperance — sensuality, animalism, carnality — tragalism^† — pleasure — effeminacy, silkiness — luxury, luxuriousness — lap of pleasure, lap of luxury — free living.
indulgence — high living, wild living, inabstinence^†, self-indulgence — voluptuousness etc. adj. — epicurism, epicureanism — sybaritism — drug habit.
dissipation — licentiousness etc. adj. — debauchery — crapulence^†.
revels, revelry — debauch, carousal, jollification, drinking bout, wassail, saturnalia, orgies — excess, too much.
Circean cup.
[drugs of abuse: list] bhang, hashish, marijuana, pot [Coll.], hemp [Coll.], grass [Coll.] — opium, cocaine, morphine, heroin — LSD, lysergic acid diethylamide [Chem] — phencyclidine, angel dust, PCP — barbiturates — amphetamines, speed [Coll.].

werkwoord

be intemperate etc. adj. — indulge, exceed — live well, live high, live high on the fat of the land, live it up, live high on the hog — give a loose to indulgence etc. n. — wallow in voluptuousness etc. n. — plunge into dissipation.
revel — rake, live hard, run riot, sow one's wild oats — slake one's appetite, slake one's thirst — swill — pamper.

bijvoeglijk naamwoord

intemperate, inabstinent^† — sensual, self-indulgent — voluptuous, luxurious, licentious, wild, dissolute, rakish, fast, debauched.
brutish, crapulous^†, swinish, piggish.
Paphian, Epicurean, Sybaritical — bred in the lap of luxury, nursed in the lap of luxury — indulged, pampered — full-fed, high-fed.

uitdrukking

being full of supper and distempering being full of supper and distempering draughts" [Othello].

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