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UNTEMPERED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does untempered mean?
• UNTEMPERED (adjective)
The adjective UNTEMPERED has 2 senses:
1. not brought to a proper consistency or hardness
2. not moderated or controlled
Familiarity information: UNTEMPERED used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not brought to a proper consistency or hardness
Synonyms:
unhardened; untempered
Context example:
untempered steel
Similar:
brittle; unannealed ((of metal or glass) not annealed and consequently easily cracked or fractured)
Antonym:
tempered (made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Not moderated or controlled
Context example:
his untempered individualism
Similar:
unmoderated (not made less extreme)
Antonym:
tempered (adjusted or attuned by adding a counterbalancing element)
Context examples
Feeling without judgment is a washy draught indeed; but judgment untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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