tempered

  • (a) made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment
    • a sword of tempered steel
    • tempered glass
    hardened, toughened, treated,
  • (a) adjusted or attuned by adding a counterbalancing element
    • criticism tempered with kindly sympathy

Synonyms

hardened toughened treated

Antonyms

unhardened untempered

Words of close approximity

tempera