temperamental
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(a) relating to or caused by temperament
- temperamental indifference to neatness
- temperamental peculiarities
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(s) subject to sharply varying moods
- a temperamental opera singer
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(s) 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