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Definition of Temperamental

1. Adjective. Relating to or caused by temperament. "Temperamental peculiarities"

2. Adjective. Subject to sharply varying moods. "A temperamental opera singer"

3. Adjective. Likely to perform unpredictably. "That beautiful but temperamental instrument the flute"

Definition of Temperamental

1. a. Of or pertaining to temperament; constitutional.

Definition of Temperamental

1. Adjective. (notcomp) of, related to, or caused by temperament ¹

2. Adjective. subject to changing and unpredictable emotional states; moody, capricious; sometimes used figuratively to describe user-unfriendly or unstable machines or software that are either complicated and/or have poorly written instructions and are subsequently difficult to operate. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Temperamental

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Temperamental

temnospondyl temnospondyls temoporfin temozolomide temp temped tempeh tempehs temper temper'd

temper tantrum temper tantrums tempera temperable temperament temperamental (current term) temperamentalities temperamentality temperamentally temperaments

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Literary usage of Temperamental

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Getting the Most Out of Business: Observations of the Application of the by Elias St. Elmo Lewis (1919)
"The temperamental Egotist Entirely different from the genius is the temperamental man—for while all geniuses have temperament, all temperamental men are not ..."

2. Getting the Most Out of Business: Observations of the Application of the by E. St. Elmo Lewis (1916)
"The temperamental Egotist Entirely different from the genius is the temperamental man—for while all geniuses have temperament, all temperamental men are not ..."

3. The Scientific Basis of Education Demonstrated: By an Analysis of the by John Hecker (1867)
"temperamental indications. Harmony of cerebral parts. ... The second, which is connected with it, is, that temperamental conditions modify the mental ..."

4. Harvard Psychological Studies by Harvard Psychological Laboratory (1922)
"temperamental DIFFERENCES BETWEEN OUTBRED AND INBRED STRAINS OF THE ALBINO RAT ... PROBLEMS The chief problem was to discover, if any, the temperamental ..."

5. Fundamental Questions by Henry Churchill King (1917)
"II temperamental DIFFERENCES In every form of expression of our unity of spirit in loyal ... individual temperamental differences will manifest themselves, ..."

6. Fundamental Questions by Henry Churchill King (1917)
"II temperamental DIFFERENCES In every form of expression of our unity of spirit in loyal devotion to Christ, individual temperamental differences will ..."

7. The Network Revolution: Confessions of a Computer Scientist by Jacques Vallee (1982)
"... Getting Out of Our Sphere In which the author finds a temperamental computer in the stables of the King's mistress, marches to the sound of an IBM drum, ..."

8. Who are the Slavs?: A Contribution to Race Psychology by Paul Rankov Radosavljevich (1919)
"... best described and interpreted by the following six most fundamental emotional-volitional or temperamental traits: I. Slavic melancholy and sadness; II. ..."

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