Hypertext Webster Gateway: "temperamental"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Temperamental \Tem`per*a*men"tal\, a.
Of or pertaining to temperament; constitutional. [R.] --Sir
T. Browne.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
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}]
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}]
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