temperamental

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: tem=per=a=men=tal

CIDE DICTIONARY

temperamental, a. 

 Of or pertaining to temperament; constitutional.  Sir T. Browne.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

temperamental, adj.
1 of or having temperament.
2 a (of a person) liable to erratic or moody behaviour. b (of a thing, e.g. a machine) working unpredictably; unreliable.

Derivative

temperamentally adv.

THESAURUS

temperamental

affective, arbitrary, atavistic, bluff, bodily, born, brusque, capricious, changeable, characteristic, coeval, congenital, connatal, connate, connatural, constitutional, crabbed, crabby, cranky, crotchety, curt, dispositional, emotional, erratic, excitable, explosive, fanciful, fantasied, fantastic, fickle, flaky, freakish, genetic, grouchy, gruff, grumpy, harebrained, hereditary, high-strung, hot-blooded, hot-tempered, hotheaded, huffish, huffy, humorsome, hypersensitive, impatient, in the blood, inborn, inbred, incarnate, inconsistent, indigenous, inherited, innate, instinctive, instinctual, intellectual, irascible, irritable, kinky, maggoty, mental, mercurial, miffy, moody, motiveless, native, native to, natural, natural to, notional, organic, oversensitive, peevish, petulant, physical, prickly, primal, quirky, sensitive, short, short-tempered, snappish, spiritual, testy, tetchy, thin-skinned, ticklish, touchy, uncertain, undependable, uneven, unpredictable, unreasonable, unreliable, unrestrained, unstable, vagarious, vagrant, variable, volatile, wanton, waspish, wayward, whimsical