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Meaning of TEMPERAMENTAL

Pronunciation:  `tempru'mentul

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [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
  2. [adj]  subject to sharply varying moods; "a temperamental opera singer"
  3. [adj]  relating to or caused by temperament; "temperamental indifference to neatness"; "temperamental peculiarities"
 
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 Synonyms: emotional, erratic, moody, undependable, unreliable
 

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Tem`per*a*men"tal\, a.
Of or pertaining to temperament; constitutional. [R.] --Sir
T. Browne.
 

 

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