Main entry: surliness, temper, snappishness, biliousness, irritability, peevishness, pettishness
Definition: a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger
Usage: his temper was well known to all his employees
Definition: the elasticity and hardness of a metal object; its ability to absorb considerable energy before cracking
Main entry: irritation, temper, pique
Definition: a sudden outburst of anger
Usage: his temper sparked like damp firewood
Main entry: humor, humour, temper, mood
Definition: a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
Usage: whether he praised or cursed me depended on his temper at the time; he was in a bad humor
Main entry: chasten, moderate, temper
Definition: restrain
Main entry: season, temper, mollify
Definition: make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else; moderate
Usage: she tempered her criticism
Main entry: temper
Definition: adjust the pitch (of pianos)
Definition: harden by reheating and cooling in oil
Usage: temper steel
Main entry: temper, normalize, anneal
Definition: bring to a desired consistency, texture, or hardness by a process of gradually heating and cooling
Usage: temper glass