Temperamental

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -É›ntÉ™l

Full definition of temperamental

Adjective

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