| Pronunciation: | | `tempru'mentul
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| Matching Terms: | | temperamentally
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- [adj] likely to perform unpredictably; "erratic winds are the bane of a sailor"; "a temperamental motor; sometimes it would start and sometimes it wouldn't"; "that beautiful but temperamental instrument the flute"- Osbert Lancaster
- [adj] subject to sharply varying moods; "a temperamental opera singer"
- [adj] relating to or caused by temperament; "temperamental indifference to neatness"; "temperamental peculiarities"
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| | Synonyms: | | emotional, erratic, moody, undependable, unreliable |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Tem`per*a*men"tal\, a.
Of or pertaining to temperament; constitutional. [R.] --Sir
T. Browne.
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