what does temperamental mean?
TEMPERAMENTAL as ADJECTIVE
- Meaning
- likely to perform unpredictably
- sometimes it would start and sometimes it wouldn”t”
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- erratic winds are the bane of a sailor
- a temperamental motor
- that beautiful but temperamental instrument the flute- Osbert Lancaster
Similar To
- Meaning
- subject to sharply varying moods
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Usage Example(s)
- a temperamental opera singer
Similar To
- Meaning
- relating to or caused by temperament
Usage Example(s)
- temperamental indifference to neatness
- temperamental peculiarities
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