temperamental

[US]/ˌtemp(ə)rə'ment(ə)l/
[UK]/'tɛmprə'mɛntl/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. moody, easily angered, prone to mood swings.

Example Sentences

a temperamental aversion to work

have a temperamental dislike of sports

had to handle the temperamental artist with kid gloves.

Actors have the reputation of being highly temperamental.

they were firm friends in spite of temperamental differences.

Real-world Examples

He had always been temperamental and bratty.

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Alex thought he was some temperamental artiste.

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Many respondents rate women with golden hair as less intelligent than other people and red hair as more temperamental.

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Somethings running afoul with two temperamental turkeys this morning.

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But it's somebody who's very temperamental.

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Mics were big, bulky, temperamental and required creative solutions to be hidden.

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Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease.

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Instead, it was a type of terror, a temperamental quality known as 'reactivity'.

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But temperamental technology and cantankerous camels combined to make this the hardest desert shoot of all.

Source: Human Planet

Using these dimensions, they distinguished three broad temperamental types: easy, difficult and slow-to-warm-up.

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