S: (n) temper, mood, humor, humour (a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling) "whether he praised or cursed me depended on his temper at the time"; "he was in a bad humor"
S: (adj) tempered, treated, hardened, toughened (made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment) "a sword of tempered steel"; "tempered glass"
S: (adj) tempered (adjusted or attuned by adding a counterbalancing element) "criticism tempered with kindly sympathy"