Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

distempered

/dɪsˈtɛmpəd/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.24 in modern English

Syllables: dis-tem-pered
IPA: /dɪsˈtɛmpəd/

17

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

simple past and past participle of distemper

adj

Affected with or suffering from distemper.

Archaic

Example Sentences

"I, sick withal, the help of bath desired, And thither hied, a sad distemper’d guest, But found no cure: the bath for my help lies Where Cupid got new fire—my mistress’ eyes."
"Infection generally came into the Houses of the Citizens, by Means of their Servants, who, they were obliged to send up and down the Streets for Necessaries […] and who going necessarily thro’ the Streets into Shops, Markets, and the like, it was impossible, but that they should one way or other, meet with distempered people, who conveyed the fatal Breath into them […]"

Regional Pronunciation

British English: /dɪsˈtɛmpəd/

Usage

Archaic

Inflected Forms

more distempered (comparative) most distempered (superlative)

Derived Forms

distemperedly distemperedness undistempered

Synonyms

diseased

Questions

How do you pronounce distempered?: The recorded pronunciation is /dɪsˈtɛmpəd/.
What does distempered mean?: simple past and past participle of distemper

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