temperament /temˈprə-mənt/

1. Disposition, personality, esp with regard to emotional make-up
2. High excitability, nervous instability, and sensitiveness
3. An adjustment made to the intervals between notes on a keyboard to allow modulation to any key (music)
4. Any of the recognized types of physical and mental make-up, believed to be controlled by the humours, ie choleric or bilious, sanguine, melancholy, phlegmatic (obsolete physiology)
5. Combination or predominance of humour (obsolete physiology)
6. State with respect to combination or predominance of qualities (obsolete)
7. Proportioned mixture
8. Climate (obsolete)
9. Internal constitution or state
10. Tempering (archaic)
11. Compromise (archaic)

temperamentˈal adjective

1. Relating to temperament
2. Of a volatile, excitable temperament, given to extreme swings of mood
3. (of a machine, etc) working erratically, unreliable

temperamentˈally adverb

• pleasingnesses
• pleasurable
• pleasurableness
• pleasurablenesses
• pleasurably
• pleasure
• pleasure boat
• pleasure boats
• pleasured
• pleasureful
• pleasure-giving
• pleasure ground
• pleasure grounds
• pleasure house
• pleasure houses
• pleasureless
• pleasure principle
• pleasure principles
• pleasurer
• pleasurers
• pleasures
• pleasure-seeker
• pleasure-seekers
• pleasure-seeking
• pleasure trip