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English adjective: tempered

1. tempered made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment


SamplesA sword of tempered steel.
Tempered glass.


Synonymshardened, toughened, treated


Similarcurable, sunbaked


Antonymsunhardened, untempered

2. tempered adjusted or attuned by adding a counterbalancing element


SamplesCriticism tempered with kindly sympathy.


Antonymsuntempered









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