Thesaurus / temperamental
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synonyms for temperamental
- capricious
- erratic
- excitable
- fickle
- headstrong
- high-strung
- impatient
- irritable
- mercurial
- ornery
- passionate
- petulant
- thin-skinned
- unpredictable
- unreliable
- unstable
- volatile
- changeable
- cussed
- easily upset
- emotional
- explosive
- fiery
- froward
- hotheaded
- hyper
- hypersensitive
- in bad mood
- inconsistent
- mean
- neurotic
- sensitive
- ticklish
- touchy
- uncertain
- undependable
- variable
- willful
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Mayli is a strong woman — very temperamental, self-confident — and she spoke to me that way.
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GALLIPOLI DIARY, VOLUME IIAN HAMILTONSo temperamental a creature as Sylvia would be prone to exaggerate a situation.
THE OPENED SHUTTERSCLARA LOUISE BURNHAMShe bore him one child, Rebecca, of a temperamental nature, and of deep piety like her mother.
REVOLUTIONARY READERSOPHIE LEE FOSTERI believe he is incapable of cruelty—physical, mental, or temperamental—quite incapable of it.
KATHARINE FRENSHAMBEATRICE HARRADENAnd now she will begin on her eternal subject: a dead friend who was done to death by her husband's temperamental cruelty.
KATHARINE FRENSHAMBEATRICE HARRADENMen differ according to their temperamental composition and their human conduct.
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WORDS RELATED TO TEMPERAMENTAL
- any way the wind blows
- arbitrary
- blowing hot and cold
- careless
- changeful
- contrary
- crotchety
- effervescent
- erratic
- every which way
- fanciful
- fickle
- fitful
- flaky
- flighty
- freakish
- gaga
- helter-skelter
- humorsome
- impulsive
- inconstant
- kinky
- lubricious
- mercurial
- moody
- mutable
- notional
- odd
- picky
- punchy
- queer
- quirky
- temperamental
- ticklish
- unpredictable
- unreasonable
- unstable
- up and down
- vagarious
- variable
- volatile
- wayward
- whimsical
- yo-yo
- audacious
- bold
- cavalier
- cheeky
- cold-shoulder
- condescending
- contumelious
- cool
- derisive
- derisory
- disdainful
- disrespectful
- dog it
- hard
- hard-nosed
- haughty
- high and mighty
- high hat
- insulting
- on high horse
- opprobrious
- sardonic
- scornful
- sneering
- snippy
- snobbish
- snooty
- snotty
- supercilious
- temperamental
- uppity
- upstage
- affecting
- ardent
- disturbed
- ecstatic
- emotive
- enthusiastic
- excitable
- exciting
- falling apart
- fanatical
- feeling
- fervent
- fervid
- fickle
- fiery
- heartwarming
- heated
- histrionic
- hot-blooded
- hysterical
- impassioned
- impetuous
- impulsive
- irrational
- moving
- nervous
- overwrought
- passionate
- pathetic
- poignant
- responsive
- roused
- sensitive
- sentient
- sentimental
- spontaneous
- stirred
- stirring
- susceptible
- tear-jerking
- temperamental
- tender
- thrilling
- touching
- warm
- zealous
- agitable
- alarmable
- demonstrative
- edgy
- emotional
- enthusiastic
- fidgety
- fierce
- fiery
- galvanic
- hasty
- high-strung
- hot-headed
- hot-tempered
- hysterical
- impatient
- impetuous
- impulsive
- inflammable
- intolerant
- irascible
- mercurial
- moody
- nervous
- neurotic
- overzealous
- passionate
- peevish
- quick
- quick-tempered
- rash
- reckless
- restless
- sensitive
- short fused
- skittish
- susceptible
- temperamental
- testy
- touchy
- uncontrolled
- uneasy
- vehement
- violent
- volatile
- volcanic
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