Usually means: Made less extreme, more moderate.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word tempered:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. tempered: Merriam-Webster
  2. -tempered: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tempered: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. tempered: Collins English Dictionary
  5. tempered: Vocabulary.com
  6. Tempered, tempered: Wordnik
  7. -tempered, tempered: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. tempered: Wiktionary
  9. tempered: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. tempered: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. tempered: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. tempered: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Tempered: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Tempered: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. tempered: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. tempered: Rhymezone
  17. Tempered: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. tempered: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. tempered: FreeDictionary.org
  20. tempered: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. tempered: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. tempered: Dictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tempered: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tempered: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tempered: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tempered: Idioms

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Tempered: Construction Glossary
  2. Tempered: Stay Sharp

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Definitions from Wiktionary (tempered)

adjective:  (in combination) Having a specified disposition or temper.
adjective:  (metallurgy) Pertaining to the metallurgical process for finishing metals.
adjective:  Pertaining to the industrial process for toughening glass, or to such toughened glass.
adjective:  Moderated or balanced by other considerations.
adjective:  (music) 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.

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