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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 hardnessplay

2. not moderated or controlledplay

  Familiarity information: UNTEMPERED used as an adjective is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


UNTEMPERED (adjective)


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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