Temperamental

a.

1.

Of or pertaining to temperament; constitutional.

Adj.	1.	temperamental - relating to or caused by temperament; "temperamental indifference to neatness"; "temperamental peculiarities"
	2.	temperamental - subject to sharply varying moods; "a temperamental opera singer" Synonyms: moody
	3.	temperamental - 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 Synonyms: erratic

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, motiveless, native, native to, natural, natural to, notional, organic, oversensitive, peevish, petulant, physical, prickly, primal, quirky, short, short-tempered, snappish, spiritual, tetchy, thin-skinned, ticklish, uncertain, undependable, uneven, unpredictable, unreasonable, unreliable, unrestrained, unstable, vagarious, vagrant, variable, volatile, wanton, waspish, wayward, whimsical

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