tempered

Other forms of tempered

comparative

temperedder·

superlative

tempereddest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about tempered

What does tempered mean?

tempered means "made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in tempered?

tempered has 2 syllables: tem-pered. The stress falls on "tem". In IPA it is /ˈtɛmpɚd/.

What is another word for tempered?

Close synonyms include treated, hardened, toughened. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of tempered?

The recorded antonyms are untempered, untempered.

Is tempered a common word?

tempered is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.