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UK
/tˌɛmpɹəmˈɛntəl/
]
[ US /ˌtɛmpɝˈmɛntəɫ, ˌtɛmpɹəˈmɛntəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˌtɛmpɝˈmɛntəɫ, ˌtɛmpɹəˈmɛntəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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relating to or caused by temperament
temperamental indifference to neatness
temperamental peculiarities -
likely to perform unpredictably
that beautiful but temperamental instrument the flute
erratic winds are the bane of a sailor
a temperamental motor; sometimes it would start and sometimes it wouldn't -
subject to sharply varying moods
a temperamental opera singer
How To Use temperamental In A Sentence
- This friend is rather temperamental and I don't know how they'll react.
- She stubbed her toe and managed to release the guitar from its holding and it twanged on the ground, waking the two very unstable-temperamental parents below.
- The guitar - at least if the player picks, rather than strums - always struck me as temperamental an instrument as the French horn, even under the hands of a decent executant.
- Be careful how you approach her - she's very temperamental.
- Temperamentally and ideologically, the two men fit hand in glove.
- He was temperamental, a kind of simple man, withdrawn, a loner.
- The new series acquisitions feature some of the best characters that the manga world has to offer, including fighting maids, a temperamental rain goddess, and — in a unique twist — cute, talking bacteria. 28 « September « 2008 « The Manga Curmudgeon
- If temperamental young starlets like Rooney or Ronaldo had behaved in this fashion, we may have been able to put it down to inexperience and youthful mischief.
- temperamentally suited to each other
- Both men were temperamental and subject to long periods of brooding followed by explosive outbursts of anger.
