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; 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.

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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Spanish

Adjective

temperamental m or f (masculine and feminine plural temperamentales)

1. temperamental, moody