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The Meaning of tempered

  • (a.) 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.
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Temper

Synonyms

anneal , temper , normalize , temper , harden , temper , temper , season , mollify , chasten , moderate , temper , treated , hardened , toughened

Antonyms

untempered , untempered

Rhymes

coffered , mitered , clifford , heard , wynyard , half-timbered , ovenbird , rediscovered , snowbird , overheard , telford , ice-scoured , angered , twiford , spurred , tortured , hunkered , half-colored , transferred , dog-tired , raynard reynard , multilayered , indentured , savored , withered , fingered , rocard , songbird , uncluttered , petard , peppard , thirty-third , norward , uninjured , gestured , gjerde , niggard , third , lily-livered , shepherd , even-tempered , shorebird , tedford , unfiltered , scattered , perjured , eduard , rumored , required , quartered , arbored , manard , structured , vennard , ordered , timbered , buttered , pampered , quizard wizard , blundered , tattered , bewildered , greybeard , unbothered , mousebird , reheard , eldred , hampered , occured , uncoloured , good-humoured , motored , badgered , outward , bedward , hundred(3) , well-centered , coffee-colored , guttered , misheard , sculptured , numbered , starboard , unlaboured , coloured , mockingbird , papered , entered , cityward , orchard , feathered , twenty-third , shoreward , northeastward , unself-centered , collard , vinyard , glittered , hartford , gifferd , bellbird , well-heard , east-southeastward , cultured , blackbeard , lovebird , whitebeard , jiggered , blanford , tired , medford , jerde , festered , fendered , redford , referred , meandered , packard , scoured , pandered , gizzard , countercolored , unmannered , grizzard , laggen-gird , ill-mannered , rutherford , shepard , coward , lowered , placard , antlered , half-covered , disfigured , rockered , brainard , time-honored , bimotored , swickard , ledford , sheperd shepherd , bothered , empowered , shepperd , shumard , gooseherd , inquired , brokered , hot-tempered , awkward , bayard , tow-colored , well-armoured , bordered , sternward , edward , byrd , unhindered , cater-cornered , clustered , leard , willard , lectured , transferred uncured , brainerd , good-tempered , sheward , unstirred , eckard , unwatered , bantered , catty-cornered , sigurd , fibered , lingard , slurred , spired , landward , neutered , winward , wizard , bradford , parti-colored , redbird , filtered , ballard , flame-colored , staggered , henard , bufford , treasured , pillared , sunbird , wavered , shimmered , unwithered , severed , textured , absurd , pictured , leisured , reynard , bickered , enamored , hummingbird , burred , pickford , dishonored , custard , seward , sherard , leonard , preferred , sired , well-wired , dillard , reconsidered , good-natured , ikard , good-humored , bailard , potsherd , clamored , stirred third , gifford , tankard , disordered , goatsbeard , yardbird , pinard , ill-natured , leppard , weathered , zippered , peppered , devoured , trafford , blackbird , admired , flesh-colored , standard , dismembered , cloistered , bainerd , laggard , injured , uncultured , burd , scabbard , keyword , swanherd , bollard , well-ordered , littered , backward , favored , lustred , eckerd , fathered , abelard , fettered , headword , bastard , lenard , chenard , fired , sunward , seaward , well-tempered , mattered , slandered , reoffered , leonard venard , kurd , tempered , waterward , watchword , outnumbered , scrub-bird , lettered , ruford , all-fired , heyward , hayward , kingbird , chambered , measured , cankered , crawford , rufford , three-cornered , forty-third , tapered , deferred , face-centered , everard , well-armored , frittered , foreword , ladybird , elmsford , radford , body-centered , drunkard , sugared , lenhard , biohazard , rickard , hazard , afterword , fifty-third , bewhiskered , trenchard , blanchard , well-hammered , transpired , thundered , hard-favored , configured , agard , thagard , bedford , glost-fired , southeastward , answered , churchward , eastward , bickford , mustered , mustard , rightward , party-colored , tutored , hard-featured , kitty-cornered , unuttered , flickered , furred , gas-fired , hillard , milk-livered , friarbird , onward , rehired required , flowered , blurred , butcherbird , manufactured , martyred , simard , leafbird , untutored , differed , dollarbird , overpowered , unanswered , favoured , considered , slaughtered , laboured , well-mannered , unexpired , millard , blizzard , akard , hanford , vanward , armoured , encumbered , hufford , sheppard , shuttered , unremembered , haverford , towered , liford , battered , word , well-measured , multicolored , underfired , rewired , plassard , buzzard , half-heard , simmered , mofford , short-tempered , plastered , mallard , szilard , crossword , flavored , pattered , corn-colored , hovered , ill-favored , manford sanford , figured , southwestward , boward , biscuit-fired , bransford , southward , bettered , conjured , thedford , cowherd , reconfigured , concurred , inspired , remanufactured , armored , heward , discolored , hammered , afterward , lumbard , powdered , villard , herd hird , mentored , guilford , cranford , hurd , oilbird , lustered , endeavored , flustered , lennard , unstructured , recurred , donnered , fractured , pillard , unheard , wayward , undiscovered , reedbird , gerrymandered , skewered , restructured , reword , uncured , butterfingered , bustard , lanford , harvard , villard willard , cupboard , honored , kingsford , goddard , tailored , plundered , featured , catchword , safford , haphazard , sequestered , chauffeured , ungird , high-colored , unencumbered , sideward , rust-colored , overword , anchored , unsugared , undeterred , misremembered , altered , warbird , light-fingered , unlettered , shattered spattered , heavenward , scampered , embittered , covered , gird , antbird , eppard , windward , sixty-third , cowbird , glandered , hindward , richard , substandard , unchartered , westward , hansard , west-northwestward , swearword , seventy-third , straightforward , ill-favoured , hollered , laundered