English to English
adjective
- made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment
A sword of tempered steel.
Tempered glass.
source: WordNet 3.0
- adjusted or attuned by adding a counterbalancing element
Criticism tempered with kindly sympathy.
source: WordNet 3.0
- Brought to a proper temper; as, tempered steel; having (such) a temper; -- chiefly used in composition; as, a good-tempered or bad-tempered man; a well-tempered sword.
source: Webster 1913