Complete Definition of "temperamental"

English

Pronunciation
Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-�nt�l|-�nt�l

Adjective
en-adj

  1. notcomp of, related to, or caused by temperament
  2. subject to changing and unpredictable emotional states; moody, capricious; sometimes used figuratively to describe user-unfriendly or unstable machines or software that are either complicated and/or have poorly written instructions and are subsequently difficult to operate.

Derived terms
temperamentally

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