temperamentaladjective
uk/ˌtem.pər.əˈmen.təl//ˌtem.prəˈmen.təl/us/ˌtem.pɚ.əˈmen.t̬əl/temperamental adjective (PERSON)
A tempermental person is someone whose mood often changes very suddenly:
Be careful how you approach her - she's very temperamental.
caused by your own character and feelings:
There are temperamental similarities between the brothers.
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Moods
- -humoured
- be in one of your moods idiom
- black mood
- eat
- frame
- have a strop on idiom
- mind
- sb's state/frame of mind idiom
- snit
- spirit
- strop
- suck
- sulky
- temper
- temperament
- temperature
- tone
- up and down idiom
- what's eating sb? idiom
- yourself
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temperamental adjective (MACHINE)
informal A temperamental machine sometimes works and sometimes does not:
You have to treat our DVD player very carefully - it's old and temperamental.
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Machines - not functioning
- burn
- cut
- deactivate
- dead
- defunct
- fritz
- ghost
- give up the ghost idiom
- go down
- haywire
- on the blink idiom
- out of commission idiom
- outage
- seize
- shudder
- shut
- shut (sth) off
- stop
- whack
- wrong
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temperamentally
adverb uk/ˌtem.pər.əˈmen.təl.i//ˌtem.prəˈmen.təl.i/us/ˌtem.pɚ.əˈmen.t̬əl.i/