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tempered

adjective

1 tempered

Made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment:
— A sword of tempered steel.
— Tempered glass.

synonyms: hardened, toughened, treated.

Roget 174: moderate; lenient etc. 740; gentle, mild, mellow; cool, sober, temperate, reasonable, measured; tempered etc. ... show more

Roget 820: affected, characterized, formed, molded, cast; attempered, tempered; framed; predisposed; prone, inclined; having a bias etc. n.; ... show more

Polish: hartowny

2 tempered

Adjusted or attuned by adding a counterbalancing element.


Moby thesaurus: aged, annealed, chastened, conditioned, constrained, controlled, developed, full-blown, full-fledged, full-grown, fully developed, hardened, heat-treated, hedged, hedged about, hushed, in control, in full bloom, in hand, leavened ... show more.

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