temperamental

English

Etymology

temperament +‎ -al

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛntəl

Adjective

temperamental (comparative more temperamental, superlative most temperamental)

1. (not comparable) Of, related to, or caused by temperament.
2. Subject to changing and unpredictable emotional states; moody, capricious.
3. (of a machine or of software, figuratively) User-unfriendly, unstable, that is complicated or has poorly written instructions and is subsequently difficult to operate.

Derived terms

• temperamentally

Translations

emotional or moody, inconsistent

• Danish: temperamentsfuld
• Finnish: temperamenttinen, oikutteleva (fi)
• French: caractériel (fr)
• Maori: hārakiraki, hūkokikoki
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• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: temperamentsfull

  Nynorsk: temperamentsfull

• Romanian: temperamental (ro) m

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Romanian

Etymology

From temperament +‎ -al.

Adjective

temperamental m or n (feminine singular temperamentală, masculine plural temperamentali, feminine and neuter plural temperamentale)

1. temperamental, moody

Declension

Declension of temperamental

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	temperamental		temperamentală	temperamentali	temperamentale
	definite	temperamentalul		temperamentala	temperamentalii	temperamentalele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	temperamental		temperamentale	temperamentali	temperamentale
	definite	temperamentalului		temperamentalei	temperamentalilor	temperamentalelor

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Spanish

Adjective

temperamental m or f (masculine and feminine plural temperamentales)

1. temperamental, moody

Derived terms

• temperamentalmente

Further reading

• “temperamental”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014