Hard and Tempered

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Hard adjective - Able to withstand hardship, strain, or exposure.

Usage example: they were forced to import sheep of a harder stock, one that could thrive in the harsh climate

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Tempered and hard are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Tempered" instead an adjective "Hard".

Nearby Words: harden, hardship, hardy, hardly, hardness

Tempered adjective - Made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment.

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Hard and tempered are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Hard" instead an adjective "Tempered".

Maison Ikkoku: In a scene Yusaku reflects that Kyoko is short-tempered, jealous, hard to deal with... but when she smiles, he feels that the world is his.

Source: When She Smiles
Sasha gets hit with it pretty hard, becoming something of an anti-social, short tempered Death Seeker.

Source: Heroic BSOD / Live-Action TV
Don Camillo Tarocci, title character of a series of stories by Giovanni Guareschi, is the hard-fisted, hot-tempered, but good-hearted priest of an Italian village in the '50s and '60s.

Source: Good Shepherd

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