Adjective: tempered tem-pu(r)d- Made hard, flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment
"tempered glass"; "a sword of tempered steel"; - treated, hardened, toughened - Adjusted or attuned by adding a counterbalancing element
"criticism tempered with kindly sympathy" Verb: temper tem-pu(r)- Bring to a desired consistency, texture, or hardness by a process of gradually heating and cooling
"temper glass"; - anneal, normalize, normalise [Brit] - Harden by reheating and cooling in oil
"temper steel"; - harden - Adjust the pitch (of pianos)
- Make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else
"she tempered her criticism"; - season, mollify, moderate, mod [informal] - Change by restraining or moderating
- chasten
See also: curable, sunbaked Type of: adjust, alter, change, correct, harden, indurate, modify, set, weaken Antonym: untempered Encyclopedia: Tempered Temper, or, Domestic Scenes |