1. Having a specified temper or disposition. Often used in combination: sweet-tempered; ill-tempered.

2. Adjusted or attuned by the addition of a counterbalancing element; moderated or measured: "Party elites in Washington were content with a politics of compromise and tempered ideology" (Bill Bishop).

3. Made appropriately hard or flexible by tempering: a sword of tempered steel.

4. Having the requisite degree of hardness or elasticity. Used of glass or a metal.

5. Music Tuned to temperament. Used of a scale, an interval, a semitone, or intonation.