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/tˌɛmprəmˈɛntəl/ /tˌɛmpərmˈɛntəl/ Listen

Temperamental

adjective

Relating to or caused by temperament. "Temperamental peculiarities"

Subject to sharply varying moods. Synonym: moody.

Likely to perform unpredictably. Synonym: erratic. "A temperamental motor; sometimes it would start and sometimes it wouldn't" , "That beautiful but temperamental instrument the flute"

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... be seeking sociability by bellowing ferociously, thudding his hard fist on the counter. Mayo was not easily surprised by the temperamental vagaries of queer old 'longcoast crabs like Captain Candage, but this sudden conversion did take away ...

— Blow The Man Down - A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 • Holman Day

... His temperamental instability may have been such that the desire for a change—the "wanderlust"—was driving him to distraction. Or perhaps, under the urge of his own subconscious feeling of failure, he may have convinced himself that if he could "shake" the old environment and all in ...

— Broken Homes - A Study of Family Desertion and its Social Treatment • Joanna C. Colcord

... also for Italy, the ancient home of Civilization, the mother of arts and refinement, to accept the standard of the Huns which the Germans embraced and imposed upon their allies. The conflict between the Germans and the Italians was instinctive, temperamental. For a thousand years it took the form of a struggle between the German Emperors and the Italian Popes for mastery. The Germans strove for political domination, for temporal power; the Italians strove, at ...

— Defenders of Democracy • Militia of Mercy

... shot at Donna Ana a terrible glance, which caused the latter to cringe. Evidently, the duenna stood in considerable awe of her temperamental ...

— The Radio Boys on the Mexican Border • Gerald Breckenridge

... page and dedicated the work to Hans von Billow, who not long after performed it with tremendous success in America, where he was on tour. When we think of all the pianists who have won acclaim in this temperamental, inspiring work, from Carreno to Percy Grainger, to mention two who have aroused special enthusiasm by their thrilling performance of it, we can but wonder that his own countrymen were so short sighted at the time it was composed. Later on Nicholas ...

— The World's Great Men of Music - Story-Lives of Master Musicians • Harriette Brower

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