| ADJECTIVE | all | untempered, unhardened | not brought to a proper consistency or hardness |
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| all | untempered | not moderated or controlled |
| Meaning | not brought to a proper consistency or hardness. | |
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| Synonym | unhardened | |
| Narrower | brittle, unannealed | (of metal or glass) not annealed and consequently easily cracked or fractured |
| Opposite | tempered, treated, hardened, toughened | made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment |
| Meaning | not moderated or controlled. | |
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| Example | "his untempered individualism" | |
| Narrower | unmoderated | not made less extreme / extreme |
| Opposite | tempered | Adjusted or attuned by adding a counterbalancing / counterbalancing element |
| Spanish | destemplado, inmoderado, intemperado | |
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