| ADJECTIVE | all | tempered, treated, hardened, toughened | made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment |
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| all | tempered | adjusted or attuned by adding a counterbalancing / counterbalancing element |
| Sounds | teh'mperd | |
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| Rhymes | Abelard ... word / Word: 269 rhymes with erd... | |
| Meaning | made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment. | |
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| Synonyms | treated, hardened, toughened | |
| Narrower | curable | Capable of being hardened by some additive or other agent |
| sunbaked | baked or hardened by exposure to sunlight | |
| Opposite | untempered, unhardened | not brought to a proper consistency or hardness |
| Spanish | templado | |
| Meaning | Adjusted or attuned by adding a counterbalancing / counterbalancing element. | |
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| Example | "criticism tempered with kindly sympathy" | |
| Opposite | untempered | not moderated or controlled |
| Spanish | templado | |
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