temperamental

From temperament +‎ -al.

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• Rhymes: -ɛntəl

temperamental (comparative more temperamental, superlative most temperamental)

1. (not comparable) Of, related to, or caused by temperament.
2. Subject to changing and unpredictable emotional states; moody, capricious.
3. (of a machine or of software, figuratively) User-unfriendly, unstable, that is complicated or has poorly written instructions and is subsequently difficult to operate; unpredictable and erratic.

• temperamentally

Borrowed from English temperamental. By surface analysis, temperamento +‎ -al.

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
• Hyphenation: tem‧pe‧ra‧men‧tal

temperamental m or f (plural temperamentais)

1. temperamental (regarding temperament)
2. temperamental (who has untimely and intense reactions)

• “temperamental”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “temperamental”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

From temperament +‎ -al.

temperamental m or n (feminine singular temperamentală, masculine plural temperamentali, feminine and neuter plural temperamentale)

1. temperamental, moody

• IPA^(key): /tempeɾamenˈtal/ [t̪ẽm.pe.ɾa.mẽn̪ˈt̪al]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: tem‧pe‧ra‧men‧tal

temperamental m or f (masculine and feminine plural temperamentales)

1. temperamental, moody

• “temperamental”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024