My theme for the Blogging from A to Z Challenge is contronyms. A contronym is a word with two or more opposite meanings, making it its own antonym. Click here to find out more about these quirky words.

Temper – calmness of mind; composure [calm]
~ or ~
Temper – heat of mind or emotion; proneness to anger [angry]
— and —
Temper – to dilute, qualify, or soften by the addition or influence of something else [to soften]
~ or ~
Temper – to harden (as steel) by reheating and cooling in oil [to harden]
In the short clip below, you could say the man needs to temper his temper because the tempered metal making up the computer has a temper than will not be ruffled by him.
Okay, that was a pretty bad example, but I was trying to fit all variations in one sentence. Hope you are having better day than this gentleman:
Are you familiar with contronyms? Can you think of examples of other ‘T’ contronyms? How Tuckered out is Bailey with her letter T?
My theme for the Blogging from A to Z Challenge is contronyms. A contronym is a word with two or more opposite meanings, making it its own antonym. Click here to find out more about these quirky words.

Temper – calmness of mind; composure [calm]
~ or ~
Temper – heat of mind or emotion; proneness to anger [angry]
— and —
Temper – to dilute, qualify, or soften by the addition or influence of something else [to soften]
~ or ~
Temper – to harden (as steel) by reheating and cooling in oil [to harden]
In the short clip below, you could say the man needs to temper his temper because the tempered metal making up the computer has a temper than will not be ruffled by him.
Okay, that was a pretty bad example, but I was trying to fit all variations in one sentence. Hope you are having better day than this gentleman:
Are you familiar with contronyms? Can you think of examples of other ‘T’ contronyms? How Tuckered out is Bailey with her letter T?