'Temperamental' definitions:
Definition of 'temperamental'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Relating to or caused by temperament; "temperamental indifference to neatness"; "temperamental peculiarities"
adjective
Subject to sharply varying moods; "a temperamental opera singer" [syn: moody, temperamental]
adjective
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]
Definition of 'Temperamental'
From: GCIDE
- Temperamental \Tem`per*a*men"tal\, a. Of or pertaining to temperament; constitutional. [R.] --Sir T. Browne. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'temperamental'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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