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temperamental
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.
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, whimsicalFor further exploring for "temperamental" in Webster Dictionary Online