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/tˌɛmprəmˈɛntəl/ /tˌɛmpərmˈɛntəl/ Listen

Temperamental

adjective

Relating to or caused by temperament. "Temperamental peculiarities"

Subject to sharply varying moods. Synonym: moody.

Likely to perform unpredictably. Synonym: erratic. "A temperamental motor; sometimes it would start and sometimes it wouldn't" , "That beautiful but temperamental instrument the flute"

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"Temperamental" Quotes from Famous Books

... it to be wondered that McLean's austere Scotch soul stood in danger of being thawed in the sunshine of Lit-lit's eyes. She was pretty, and slender, and willowy; without the massive face and temperamental stolidity of the average squaw. "Lit-lit," so called from her fashion, even as a child, of being fluttery, of darting about from place to place like a butterfly, of being inconsequent and merry, and of laughing as lightly as she darted and ...

— The Faith of Men • Jack London

... temperamental impossibility for Dumont to believe that Scarborough could really be sincere in a course which was obviously unprofitable. Therefore he attached even more importance to Arabella's cordiality than did Gladys herself. And, when the Legislature adjourned and Scarborough returned ...

— The Cost • David Graham Phillips

... made for nervousness, illness, or temperamental conditions, but the same measuring-rod is applied to all with no discrimination, and she has the marks on the papers to prove her infallibility. If a pupil should dare to question the correctness of her grades, he would be punished or penalized for impertinence. Her grades are ...

— The Vitalized School • Francis B. Pearson

... it at once. She had a certain feminine secretiveness which made her doubly enjoy a happiness undiluted by publicity; moreover, some further deference was due to Carnath. She was very happy, the more so as she had believed until a short while ago that her strong temperamental possibilities were vaulted in her nature's little church-yard. "Our hearts after first love are like our dead," she thought; "they sleep until the hour of resurrection." Hedworth dominated her, had taken her love rather than asked for it, ...

— The Bell in the Fog and Other Stories • Gertrude Atherton

... Temperamental. That is, he got soused on about three, and, while snooted, would deride Victor Herbert, thus proving that ...

— Ade's Fables • George Ade

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