Synonyms for tempered
ˈtɛm pərdtem·pered

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1. temperedadjective

   Antonyms:
   untempered

2. temperedadjective

   The Pyncheon Elm, throughout its great circumference, was all alive, and full of the morning sun and a sweet-tempered little breeze, which lingered within this verdant sphere, and set a thousand leafy tongues a-whispering all at once. This aged tree appeared to have suffered nothing from the gale. — Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables, Chapter 19.

   Antonyms:
   untempered

3. temperedadjective

   1851 Not forged! and snatching Perth's levelled iron from the crotch, Ahab held it out, exclaiming -- Look ye, Nantucketer; here in this hand I hold his death! Tempered in blood, and tempered by lightning are these barbs; and I swear to temper them triply in that hot place behind the fin, where the white whale most feels his accursed life! — Herman Melville, Moby Dick.

   Antonyms:
   untempered

4. temperedadjective

   1792 The downcast eye, the rosy blush, the retiring grace, are all proper in their season; but modesty, being the child of reason, cannot long exist with the sensibility that is not tempered by reflection — Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.

   Antonyms:
   untempered

5. temperedadjective

   Antonyms:
   untempered

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1. tempered, treated, hardened, toughenedadjective

   made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment

   "a sword of tempered steel"; "tempered glass"

   Synonyms:
   tough, toughened, set, hardened, inured, treated, case-hardened, enured, hard-boiled

   Antonyms:
   brittle, unmoderated, untempered, unhardened, unannealed

2. temperedadjective

   adjusted or attuned by adding a counterbalancing element

   "criticism tempered with kindly sympathy"

   Synonyms:
   toughened, hardened, treated

   Antonyms:
   unannealed, unhardened, untempered, unmoderated, brittle

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1. List of paraphrases for "tempered":

   mitigated, attenuated, dimmed, tarnished, marred, moderated

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1. Jessica Caldwell:

   The industry is going electric but at a much slower rate than was expected a few years ago, while most automakers are dedicated to moving [ to ] electric, the global pandemic has tempered that shift for change.

2. Sydney Harris:

   Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

3. Alexander Zakharchenko:

   While we still have time before the spring, new detachments will be able to receive military training, we expect mobilization to yield at least five additional brigades five motorized brigades, one artillery brigade and a tank brigade. The Ukrainian rearguard for the Debaltseve front in Artemivsk, the home of one of the country's best-selling sparkling wines, looks increasingly like a garrison town. Auto-mechanics and tire shops have seen a sharp pick-up in business repairing damaged vehicles brought in by soldiers. Abandoned Soviet-era plants have been converted into bases. The local stadium is used as a landing pad for helicopters ferrying out the wounded. Many troops are nervous, jumpy and ill-tempered. On Wednesday, a group of irregulars detained a group of international journalists in the center and threatened to escort them out of the town if they took pictures of military equipment. The cannonades are fainter in Artemivsk, but they can still be heard. The significance of that is lost on few.

4. Rick Stanton:

   That was a massive, massive relief. Initially we weren't certain they were all alive and as they were coming down I was counting them until I got to 13, all we could think about was how we were going to get them out, so there was relief tempered with uncertainty.

5. Mark Linden:

   For parents of children who are born premature or with other medical complications, the joy of a new baby is tempered with worry, the medicalized environment in which the baby is placed in the days and weeks following delivery is unfamiliar and at times frightening for parents.