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ˈtɛm pərdtem·pered
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temperedadjective
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untemperedtemperedadjective
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:
untemperedtemperedadjective
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:
untemperedtemperedadjective
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.
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untemperedtemperedadjective
Antonyms:
untempered
Princeton's WordNet
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-boiledAntonyms:
brittle, unmoderated, untempered, unhardened, unannealedtemperedadjective
adjusted or attuned by adding a counterbalancing element
"criticism tempered with kindly sympathy"
Synonyms:
toughened, hardened, treatedAntonyms:
unannealed, unhardened, untempered, unmoderated, brittle
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#189 | set | |
#3348 | treated | |
#4924 | tough | |
#14610 | moderated | |
#20615 | hardened | |
#21788 | tempered | |
#37418 | mitigated | |
#38440 | attenuated | |
#42006 | marred | |
#51327 | tarnished | |
#60370 | dimmed | |
#77839 | toughened | |
#155694 | inured |
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Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.
Leonard Nimoy showed a young, nerdy, bullied me that not only could science be important and valued, but it could literally save entire ships, planets, and galaxies of lives, as I grew up, he taught me that reason could be tempered with humor. That learned adults still had more to learn. That feminism and opposing prejudice was vital. And that there is no age too late to reinvent yourself.
[ Avenatti ] is hot tempered and used to having Michael Avenatti way – when Michael Avenatti does n’t Michael Avenatti gets extremely loud and verbally aggressive.
I'm very comfortable with risk that is tempered, i kind of think of it as courage.
The worst-tempered people I've ever met were the people who knew they were wrong.
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