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. Eric Day:

   Communities and farms with large numbers of cicadas emerging at once may have a substantial noise issue, hopefully, any annoyance at the disturbance is tempered by just how infrequent -- and amazing -- this event is.

2. 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.

3. Mike Pompeo:

   It should also remind us all what is too easy to turn away from : there is evil in the world and the barbarians leading North Korea are a part of North Korea, one of the highlights of my time as secretary of state was bringing home three Americans from the clutches of such a regime. But the joy I felt that night was tempered by the knowledge that we could not do the same for Otto Warmbier and Otto Warmbier family. The promising future of Otto Warmbier was crushed by North Korea’s inhumanity. This makes our duty to remember Otto Warmbier so real for me. It would be fitting to name this street in New York City in honor of Otto Warmbier as a reminder to the North Koreans, and to the world, that America will never suffer brutal dictators without responding, that we value life and that we will not rest until those responsible for heinous actions like theirs have been confronted.

4. Ralph Waldo Emerson:

   Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.

5. Pierre Elliott Trudeau:

   Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt. (On relations with the US)