Tempered

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Having a specified temper or disposition. Often used in combination: sweet-tempered; ill-tempered.
  • adj. Adjusted or attuned by the addition of a counterbalancing element; moderated or measured: "prepare the country to expect hard choices and to appreciate tempered values and moderation in private and public life” ( Haynes Johnson).
  • adj. Made appropriately hard or flexible by tempering: a sword of tempered steel.
  • adj. Having the requisite degree of hardness or elasticity. Used of glass or a metal.
  • adj. Music Tuned to temperament. Used of a scale, an interval, semitone, or intonation.
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  • adj. Of one's disposition.
  • adj. Pertaining to the metallurgical process for finishing metals.
  • adj. Of something moderated or balanced by other considerations.
  • adj. 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.
  • v. Simple past tense and past participle of temper.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Brought to a proper temper; ; having (such) a temper; -- chiefly used in composition
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Having a certain temper or disposition; disposed: often used in composition: as, a good-tempered man.
  • In music, noting an instrument, scale, or interval that is tuned in accordance with some other temperament than just or pure temperament, specifically one tuned in equal temperament. See temperament, 5.
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  • adj. made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment
  • adj. adjusted or attuned by adding a counterbalancing element
    • Equivalent
    sunbaked    curable   
    Antonym
    untempered   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    moderate   
    Verb Stem
    temper   
     
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