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well-tempered

well-tempered adjective: good-humoured, pleasant, having an even temperament.

Adjective

well-tempered (not comparable)

  1. (archaic) good-humoured, pleasant, having an even temperament
  2. Having twelve notes per octave of the standard instrument tuned in such a way that it is possible to play music in any major or minor key and the resulting sound will not sound perceptibly too far out of tune.

well-tempered meaning in Hindi

well-tempered in Hindi

well-tempered, sharp
दमदार damdār

Origin of well-tempered

A calque of German wohltemperiert

Questions about well-tempered

What does well-tempered mean?
Well-tempered means good-humoured, pleasant, having an even temperament.
What is well-tempered in Hindi?
Well-tempered in Hindi is दमदार (damdār). See Well-tempered meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is well-tempered?
Well-tempered is an adjective.

Words near well-tempered in the dictionary

  1. well-spoken
  2. well-stacked
  3. well-stocked
  4. well-stomached
  5. well-tailored
  6. well-tempered
  7. well-tended
  8. well-thewed
  9. well-thought-of
  10. well-thought-out
  11. well-thriven

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Adapted from Wiktionary: well-tempered (page history and authors); दमदार (Hindi) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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