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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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"Temperamental" Quotes from Famous Books

... to do what Nancy is going to do, just out of sheer temperamental weakness, and—and tendency to follow the line of ...

— Outside Inn • Ethel M. Kelley

... words sent a cold chill into the very marrow of my being. Innocent of all evil intent though I was, I now recalled that on the day before, while in mixed company, I had spoken openly—perhaps bitterly—of the temperamental shortcomings of the French. What if my language should be distorted, my motives misconstrued? In the present roused and frenzied state of a proverbially excitable race the most ...

— Fibble, D. D. • Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb

... sure there is an underlying cause in extenuation for this temperamental shortcoming which in justice to the ostensibly weaker sex should be set forth here. Even though I am taking on the role of Devil's Advocate in the struggle to keep woman from canonizing herself by main force I want to be as fair as I can, always reserving ...

— 'Oh, Well, You Know How Women Are!' AND 'Isn't That Just Like a Man!' • Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb

... knew I'd hear that yodel. Eve didn't have anything to speak of, but she travelled a lot. Truth is, Kitty, you'd better dress in monotones. She might wake up to the fact that you're a mighty pretty young woman and suddenly become temperamental. She has a husband round the lot somewhere. Make him think his wife is a lucky woman. Here's all the dope—introduction, expenses, and tickets. Train leaves at two-fifty. Run along home and pack. Remember, I want a page yarn. No flapdoodle or mush; straight stuff. She doesn't need any advertising. ...

— The Drums Of Jeopardy • Harold MacGrath

... possible only at the center, the crux, of Being. This truth is represented by the algebraical X, the symbol of spiritual sex-union. Therefore sex relationships which do not have for their crux spiritual as well as temperamental affinity, are not final, or eternal, however beautiful they may be; and there are many sex-relationships which are pure and sacred even though they do not fulfil this highest of all relationships, that of ...

— Sex=The Unknown Quantity - The Spiritual Function of Sex • Ali Nomad

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