tempered
Meanings
Verb
- bring to a desired consistency, texture, or hardness by a process of gradually heating and cooling
- harden by reheating and cooling in oil
- adjust the pitch (of pianos)
- make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else; moderate
- "she tempered her criticism"
- restrain
- simple past and past participle of temper
Adjective
- made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment
- "a sword of tempered steel"
- "tempered glass"
- adjusted or attuned by adding a counterbalancing element
- "criticism tempered with kindly sympathy"
Adj
- Having a specified disposition or temper.
- Pertaining to the metallurgical process for finishing metals.
- Pertaining to the industrial process for toughening glass, or to such toughened glass.
- Moderated or balanced by other considerations.
- Pertaining to the well-tempered scale, where the twelve notes per octave of the standard keyboard are tuned in such a way that it is possible to play music in any major or minor key and it will not sound perceptibly out of tune.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English tempred, itempered, ytempred, ytemprid, from Old English ġetemprod (“tempered, moderate, goverened, cured”), past participle of Old English ġetemprian (“to temper, moderate, govern, cure”), equivalent to temper + -ed.
Synonyms
anneal, chasten, harden, hardened, measured, mellow, middle of the road, mild, moderate, mollify, nonexcessive, nonextreme, nonfanatic, normalize, proper, reasonable, reasonous, season, sober, temper, temperate, tempered, toughened, treated, unexcessive, unextreme
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 13
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