| 单词 | tempered |
| 释义 | tempered (once / 996 pages) adj WORD FAMILY tempered: ill-tempered, temperedest, temperedly, untempered+/distemper: distempered, distempering, distempers/intemperance: intemperances/temper: distemper, temperance, tempered, tempering, tempers/temperance: intemperance, temperances/tempering: temperings USAGE EXAMPLESThis cautious optimism is tempered with a very big caveat, however … Seattle Times(Dec 31, 2016) So when Mr. Rivlin offered his annual New Year’s message on Thursday, his optimism was tempered. New York Times(Dec 29, 2016) While Mr Natarajan's talk is inevitably humorous, it is also tempered by more serious concerns. BBC(Dec 26, 2016) 1adj made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment a sword of tempered steel tempered glass Syn|Ant hardened, toughened, treated curable capable of being hardened by some additive or other agent sunbakedbaked or hardened by exposure to sunlight; not burned unhardened, untempered not brought to a proper consistency or hardness brittle, unannealed(of metal or glass) not annealed and consequently easily cracked or fractured 2adj adjusted or attuned by adding a counterbalancing element criticism tempered with kindly sympathy Ant untempered not moderated or controlled unmoderatednot made less extreme |
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