Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
Definitions: Temperamental |
TemperamentalAdjective1. Relating to or caused by temperament; "temperamental indifference to neatness"; "temperamental peculiarities". 2. Subject to sharply varying moods; "a temperamental opera singer". 3. 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. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "temperamental" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1896. (references) |
Note: Temperamental \Tem`per*a*men"tal\, adjective. Of or pertaining to temperament; constitutional.. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: TemperamentalSynonyms: erratic (adj), moody (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Temperamental |
| English words defined with "temperamental": agreeability, agreeableness ♦ erratic ♦ moodiness, moody ♦ personality, prima donna. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Temperamental" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Portuguese (temperamental), Romanian (temperamental, temperamentally), Spanish (temperamental). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | You're so extreme, you can be so temperamental ("Urgent"; performing artist: Foreigner) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Part 2 Temperamental Amazon (1961) A Temperamental Wife (1919) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title | ||
Books |
| ||
Music |
| ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Temperamental Russian conductor.Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Life, the Universe and Everything | Douglas Adams | Trillian? he said. "She's just a kid. Cute, yeah, but temperamental. You know how it is with women. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Temperamental" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.28% of the time. "Temperamental" is used about 139 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 99.28% | 138 | 27,024 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.72% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 139 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "temperamental": be temperamental. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
temperamental | 4 |
lyrics temperamental | 2 |
husband temperamental | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "temperamental"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | tekanjoz (capricious, faddish, faddy, freakish, wanton, wayward, whimsical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | متقلب (capricious, changeable, changeful, choppy, fickle, flighty, fluctuant, fluky, freakish, incalculable, inconsistent, inconstant, jumpy, mercurial, mobile, moody, mutable, reversible, rough and tumble, shaky, skittish, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, variable, versatile, volatile, wavering, wayward, weather vane, whimsical, yeasty), مزاجي (problem), حساس (compassionate, critical, emotional, feeling, fine, hypersensitive, impressionable, maudlin, responsive, sensational, sensible, sensitive, sentient, sentiment, sentimental, susceptible, sympathetic, tender, tender-hearted, ticklish), سريع الإهتياج (fussy, inflammable), عجيب (amazement, bizarre, fanciful, freakish, funny, marvellous, marvelous, odd, odd jobs, peculiar, phenomenal, portentous, prestigious, puzzling, rats, rum, staring, stupendous, tall, weird, wonder, wonderful, wondrous), طبيعي (homely, inborn, inbred, indigenous, natural, naturalist, naturalistic, normal, physical, primitive, spontaneous, straight, unaffected). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | свойствен на даден темперамент, своенравен (capricious, crotchety, perverse, vagarious, wayward, wilful, wrongheaded, wry), темпераментен (ebullient, emotional, exuberant, warm blooded), вроден (congenital, connate, connatural, elemental, glandular, inborn, inbred, indigenous, inherent, innate, native, natural, radical, unconditioned, untaught, untutored), органически (organic), неуравновесен (flighty, lop-sided, unbalanced, unballasted, unpredictable, unstable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | vrtošivý (erratic, fanciful, incalculable, wayward), náladový (capricious, crotchety, erratic, freakish, Moody, whimsical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | naturel, lunatique, inné, fantasque, capricieux. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | temperamentvoll (bubbly, full of spirits, lively, nippy, spirited, spiritedly, sultry, temperamentally, vivacious). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ιδιοσυγκρασίασ, ευέξαπτοσ (combustible, fretful, irascible, nervous, short tempered, tinder box), ευαίσθητοσ (delicate, emotional, impressionable, mushy, queasy, responsive, sensitive, sentient, susceptible, thin-skinned, touchy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מז'י, "פכפך (fickle, fitful, inconstant, spineless, turncoat, unsettled, wayward), ר'ש י (emotional, romantic, sentimental), תון למצבי רוח. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | vérmérsékleti. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | lunatico (lunar, lunatic, Moody, whimsical), instabile (changeable, inconstant, mobile, shaky, unstable, unsteady), connaturato (connate, ingrained, natural), capriccioso (capricious, fanciful, flighty, freakish, maggoty, skittish, wayward, whimsical, wilful, willful). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | so-ghleashagh (accommodating of morals, ductile, floating). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | emperamentaltay temperamental, instável (ambulatory, astatic, baffling, bumpy, cavy, changeable, erratum, fickle, incandesce, inconstant, infirm, kid glove, labor, lubricous, mobile home, mutable, off balance, slippery, slippy, ticklish, Tippy, tottering, unreliable, unsound, unstable, unsteady, variable, wayward, wonky), excitável (excitable, inflammable cargo, nervous, skittish), constitucional (constitutional), caprichoso (arbitrary, cantankerous, caprice, capricious, crotchety, difficult, extravagant, faddy, fanciful, fitful, freakish, Kittle, maggoty, notional, peevish, skittish, tidy, viewy, wayward, whim, whimsical). (various references) temperamental (temperamentally). (various references) темпераментный (temperamentally). (various references) temperamentan. (various references) temperamental. (various references) temperamentsfull. (various references) ที่มีอารม"์แปรปรวน. (various references) yaradılıştan olan (congenital), sağı solu belli olmayan, saati saatine uymayan, maymun iştahlı (desultory, fickle, flighty, whimsey, whimsical, whimsy), huy ile ilgili. (various references) імпульсивний (impulsive), темпераментний, органічний (constitutional, organic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "temperamental": temperamentally. (additional references) | |
| |
"Temperamental" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: temperameental, temperamento. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "temperamental" (pronounced te'mprume"ntul or te'mperme"ntul) |
| 8 | -r u m e" n t u l | detrimental, experimental, incremental, instrumental. |
| 7 | -u m e" n t u l | elemental, fundamental, monumental, ornamental, regimental, sentimental, supplemental, unsentimental. |
| 6 | -m e" n t u l | compartmental, developmental, environmental, intergovernmental, judgmental, mental, nongovernmental. |
| 5 | -e" n t u l | accidental, coincidental, continental, dental, gentle, incidental, intercontinental, lentil, occidental, oriental, parental, rental, transcendental, transcontinental. |
| 4 | -n t u l | Cantle, consonantal, disgruntle, dismantle, frontal, governmental, horizontal, infantile, lintel, mantel, mantle, periodontal, prefrontal, quintal, Wintle. |
| 3 | -t u l | acquittal, anecdotal, artiodactyl, battle, beetle, belittle, betel, bicoastal, bottle, brattle, Bristol, brittle, brutal, butyl, capital, Capitol, cattle, chattel, chortle, coastal, committal, congenital, crustal, crystal, digital, distal, ductile, embattle, entitle, extramarital, fatal, fertile, fetal, fractal, futile, genital, glottal, hospital, hostel, hostile, hurtle, immortal, immotile, infertile, kettle, Kittel, Kittle, little, marital, metal, mettle, mortal, motile, Myrtle, Natal, neonatal, nettle, noncommittal, nonfatal, nonvolatile, occipital, orbital, parietal, pedestal, petal, Pistil, pistol, pivotal, portal, postal, postnatal, Pottle, prattle, premarital, prenatal, projectile, rattle, rebuttal, recital, rectal, resettle, scuttle, settle, shuttle, skeletal, skittle, societal, spittle, startle, subtitle, subtle, tactile, tattle, throttle, title, tittle, tootle, total, transmittal, turtle, unsettle, unsubtle, varietal, vegetal, versatile, vestal, vital, vittle, volatile, Whittle. |
| 6 | -m e" n t u l | compartmental, detrimental, developmental, elemental, environmental, experimental, fundamental, incremental, instrumental, intergovernmental, judgmental, mental, monumental, nongovernmental, ornamental, regimental, sentimental, supplemental, unsentimental. |
| 5 | -e" n t u l | accidental, coincidental, continental, dental, gentle, incidental, intercontinental, lentil, occidental, oriental, parental, rental, transcendental, transcontinental. |
| 4 | -n t u l | Cantle, consonantal, disgruntle, dismantle, frontal, governmental, horizontal, infantile, lintel, mantel, mantle, periodontal, prefrontal, quintal, Wintle. |
| 3 | -t u l | acquittal, anecdotal, artiodactyl, battle, beetle, belittle, betel, bicoastal, bottle, brattle, Bristol, brittle, brutal, butyl, capital, Capitol, cattle, chattel, chortle, coastal, committal, congenital, crustal, crystal, digital, distal, ductile, embattle, entitle, extramarital, fatal, fertile, fetal, fractal, futile, genital, glottal, hospital, hostel, hostile, hurtle, immortal, immotile, infertile, kettle, Kittel, Kittle, little, marital, metal, mettle, mortal, motile, Myrtle, Natal, neonatal, nettle, noncommittal, nonfatal, nonvolatile, occipital, orbital, parietal, pedestal, petal, Pistil, pistol, pivotal, portal, postal, postnatal, Pottle, prattle, premarital, prenatal, projectile, rattle, rebuttal, recital, rectal, resettle, scuttle, settle, shuttle, skeletal, skittle, societal, spittle, startle, subtitle, subtle, tactile, tattle, throttle, title, tittle, tootle, total, transmittal, turtle, unsettle, unsubtle, varietal, vegetal, versatile, vestal, vital, vittle, volatile, Whittle. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-e-e-l-m-m-n-p-r-t-t" | |
-2 letters: temperament. | |
-3 letters: pentameter, terneplate. | |
-4 letters: alternate, apartment, letterman, lettermen, nameplate, penetrate, temperate. | |
-5 letters: alterant, ameerate, anteater, armament, attemper, enameler, lamenter, lateener, malapert, maltreat, mantelet, maternal, metamere, palmette, panetela, parament, parental, parlante, patentee, paternal, permeant, permeate, prenatal, tarletan, teammate, template. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-e-e-l-m-m-n-p-r-t-t" | |
+2 letters: temperamentally. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 65 6D 70 65 72 61 6D 65 6E 74 61 6C |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
|
| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
|
| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
|
| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
|
Morse Code (1836) (references)- . -- .--. . .-. .- -- . -. - .- .-.. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
|
Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01100101 01101101 01110000 01100101 01110010 01100001 01101101 01100101 01101110 01110100 01100001 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T e m p e r a m e n t a l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0065 006D 0070 0065 0072 0061 006D 0065 006E 0074 0061 006C |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
|
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)54717982718467797180866778 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Quotations: Fiction 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Expressions 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Translations: Modern 12. Derivations | 13. Rhymes 14. Anagrams 15. Orthography 16. Bibliography |
Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
