Tempered

Quick meaning: Tempered is an adjective meaning (in combination) Having a specified disposition or temper.

Meaning

(in combination) Having a specified disposition or temper.

More Meanings

1. (metallurgy) Pertaining to the metallurgical process for finishing metals.
2. Pertaining to the industrial process for toughening glass, or to such toughened glass.
3. Moderated or balanced by other considerations.
4. simple past and past participle of temper
5. (music) 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.

Example Sentences

even-tempered

[N]obody knows how the wind is tempered to shorn Irish lambs, and in what marvellous places they find pasture.

The downcast eye, the rosy blush, the retiring grace, are all proper in their season; but modesty, being the child of reason, cannot long exist with the sensibility that is not tempered by reflection.

The Pyncheon Elm, throughout its great circumference, was all alive, and full of the morning sun and a sweet-tempered little breeze, which lingered within this verdant sphere, and set a thousand leafy tongues a-whispering all at once. This aged tree appeared to have suffered nothing from the gale.

Synonyms for tempered

Depending on context, synonyms include mellow, sober, measured, mild, moderate, nonexcessive.

Antonyms for tempered

Common opposites include untempered, unhardened.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include hardened, qualified, diluted, burnt, sunbaked, treated.

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