What is the meaning of temperamental?

adjective

  • Relating to or caused by temperament.
    • usage: "temperamental indifference to neatness"; "temperamental peculiarities"
  • Subject to sharply varying moods.
    • usage: "a temperamental opera singer"
  • 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
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