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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (3)

1. relating to or caused by temperament;
- Example: "temperamental indifference to neatness"
- Example: "temperamental peculiarities"

2. subject to sharply varying moods;
- Example: "a temperamental opera singer"
[syn: moody, temperamental]

3. likely to perform unpredictably;
- Example: "erratic winds are the bane of a sailor"
- Example: "a temperamental motor sometimes it would start and sometimes it wouldn't";
- Example: "that beautiful but temperamental instrument the flute"- Osbert Lancaster
[syn: erratic, temperamental]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Temperamental \Tem`per*a*men"tal\, a. Of or pertaining to temperament; constitutional. [R.] --Sir T. Browne. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

temperamental adj 1: relating to or caused by temperament; "temperamental indifference to neatness"; "temperamental peculiarities" 2: subject to sharply varying moods; "a temperamental opera singer" [syn: moody, temperamental] 3: 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 [syn: erratic, temperamental]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

106 Moby Thesaurus words for "temperamental": affective, arbitrary, atavistic, bluff, bodily, born, brusque, capricious, changeable, characteristic, coeval, congenital, connatal, connate, connatural, constitutional, crabbed, crabby, cranky, crotchety, curt, dispositional, emotional, erratic, excitable, explosive, fanciful, fantasied, fantastic, fickle, flaky, freakish, genetic, grouchy, gruff, grumpy, harebrained, hereditary, high-strung, hot-blooded, hot-tempered, hotheaded, huffish, huffy, humorsome, hypersensitive, impatient, in the blood, inborn, inbred, incarnate, inconsistent, indigenous, inherited, innate, instinctive, instinctual, intellectual, irascible, irritable, kinky, maggoty, mental, mercurial, miffy, moody, motiveless, native, native to, natural, natural to, notional, organic, oversensitive, peevish, petulant, physical, prickly, primal, quirky, sensitive, short, short-tempered, snappish, spiritual, testy, tetchy, thin-skinned, ticklish, touchy, uncertain, undependable, uneven, unpredictable, unreasonable, unreliable, unrestrained, unstable, vagarious, vagrant, variable, volatile, wanton, waspish, wayward, whimsical