EGAVE

tempered

About 3.56 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Having a specified disposition or temper.
    even-tempered
  2. adjective Pertaining to the metallurgical process for finishing metals.
  3. adjective Pertaining to the industrial process for toughening glass, or to such toughened glass.
  4. adjective Moderated or balanced by other considerations.
  5. adjective Pertaining to the well-tempered scale, where the twelve notes per octave of the standard keyboard are tuned in such a way that it is possible to play music in any major or minor key and it will not sound perceptibly out of tune.
  6. verb simple past and past participle of temper

Similar words

hardened qualified diluted burnt sunbaked treated tuned baked annealed burned

Often followed by

by with and the in to steel man his

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