temperamental

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

Synonyms

moody erratic

Words of close approximity

temperamentally