'Tempered' definitions:
Definition of 'tempered'
From: WordNet
adjective
Made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment; "a sword of tempered steel"; "tempered glass" [syn: tempered, treated, hardened, toughened] [ant: unhardened, untempered]
adjective
Adjusted or attuned by adding a counterbalancing element; "criticism tempered with kindly sympathy" [ant: untempered]
Definition of 'Tempered'
From: GCIDE
- Temper \Tem"per\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tempered; p. pr. & vb. n. Tempering.] [AS. temprian or OF. temper, F. temp['e]rer, and (in sense 3) temper, L. temperare, akin to tempus time. Cf. Temporal, Distemper, Tamper.]
- 1. 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. [1913 Webster]
- Puritan austerity was so tempered by Dutch indifference, that mercy itself could not have dictated a milder system. --Bancroft. [1913 Webster]
- Woman! lovely woman! nature made thee To temper man: we had been brutes without you. --Otway. [1913 Webster]
- But thy fire Shall be more tempered, and thy hope far higher. --Byron. [1913 Webster]
- She [the Goddess of Justice] threw darkness and clouds about her, that tempered the light into a thousand beautiful shades and colors. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To fit together; to adjust; to accomodate. [1913 Webster]
- Thy sustenance . . . serving to the appetite of the eater, tempered itself to every man's liking. --Wisdom xvi. 21. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Metal.) To bring to a proper degree of hardness; as, to temper iron or steel. [1913 Webster]
- The tempered metals clash, and yield a silver sound. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To govern; to manage. [A Latinism & Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- With which the damned ghosts he governeth, And furies rules, and Tartare tempereth. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To moisten to a proper consistency and stir thoroughly, as clay for making brick, loam for molding, etc. [1913 Webster]
- 6. (Mus.) To adjust, as the mathematical scale to the actual scale, or to that in actual use. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: To soften; mollify; assuage; soothe; calm. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Tempered'
From: GCIDE
- Tempered \Tem"pered\, a. Brought to a proper temper; as, tempered steel; having (such) a temper; -- chiefly used in composition; as, a good-tempered or bad-tempered man; a well-tempered sword. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'tempered'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aged,
- annealed,
- chastened,
- conditioned,
- constrained,
- controlled,
- developed,
- full-blown,
- full-fledged,
- full-grown,
- fully developed,
- hardened,
- heat-treated,
- hedged,
- hedged about,
- hushed,
- in control,
- in full bloom,
- in hand,
- leavened,
- limited,
- mature,
- mellow,
- mellowed,
- mitigated,
- modified,
- modulated,
- qualified,
- quelled,
- restrained,
- restricted,
- ripe,
- seasoned,
- softened,
- stable,
- subdued,
- toughened
Words containing 'Tempered'
- Temper,
- Temperable,
- Temperance,
- Temperancy,
- Temperate,
- Temperately,
- Temperateness,
- Temperative,
- Temperer,
- Tempering,
- Ill temper,
- Temper screw,
- Temperance society,
- Temperance, MI,
- Temperate zone,
- Tempered glass,
- Tempering color,
- bad temper,
- even tempered,
- good temper,
- quick temper,
- short temper,
- temper tantrum,
- temperate bacteriophage,
- Good-tempered,
- Ill-tempered,
- bad-tempered,
- cold-temperate,
- even-tempered,
- hot-tempered,
- lose one's temper,
- north temperate zone,
- quick-tempered,
- short-tempered,
- south temperate zone,
- temperate rain forest,
- Woman's Christian Temperance Union,
- Women's Christian Temperance Union,
- equable even-tempered good-tempered placid,
- choleric irascible hotheaded hot-headed hot-tempered quick-tempered short-tempered,
- shirty snorty ill-tempered or annoyed,
- crabbed crabby cross fussy fussbudgety grouchy grumpy bad-tempered ill-tempered