temperamental

The word “temperamental” has 5 syllables: tem-per-a-men-tal

It's pronounced as /ˌtɛm.pɚ.əˈmɛn.təl/


What is synonym and antonym for temperamental?

In the thesaurus, “temperamental” has 70 synonyms and 31 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for temperamental along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for temperamental

Antonyms for temperamental

Meanings of temperamental

  • adjective
    1. (notcomp) Of, related to, or caused by temperament.
    2. Subject to changing and unpredictable emotional states; moody, capricious; sometimes used figuratively to describe user-unfriendly or unstable machines or software that are either complicated and/or have poorly written instructions and are subsequently difficult to operate.

Example Sentences

  • The old car is temperamental and refuses to start on cold mornings.
  • She’s incredibly talented but also quite temperamental on set.
  • The computer has been temperamental since the last update.
  • His temperamental behavior made it hard for the team to rely on him.
  • That breed of horse is known to be fast but temperamental.

On this page you'll find 101 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to temperamental, such as: abiding, adaptable, aimless, ambivalent, arbitrary, capricious, certain.

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Related Words

waffling

  • alternating
  • ambivalent
  • beating about the bush
  • beating around the bush
  • betwixt and between
  • blowing hot and cold
  • borderline
  • bypassing
  • capricious
  • caviling
  • cavilling
  • changeable
  • changeful
  • changing
  • circumlocutory
  • circumventing
  • clouded
  • confusing statement
  • copious
  • debatable
  • deviating
  • differing
  • diffusive
  • digressive
  • discursive
  • dithering
  • divided
  • dodge
  • dodging
  • doubtful
  • doubting
  • dubious
  • dubitable
  • ducking
  • due
  • dull
  • eluding
  • equivocal
  • equivocal saying
  • equivocating
  • erratic
  • eschewing
  • evading
  • evasion
  • exuberant
  • faltering
  • fearful
  • fickle
  • fitful
  • flexible
  • flickering
  • flip-flopping
  • fluctuating
  • fluid
  • fudging
  • halfhearted
  • halting
  • hedging
  • hemming and hawing
  • hesitant
  • hesitating
  • hot-and-cold
  • iffy
  • immature
  • impartial
  • impulsive
  • in arrears
  • in the middle
  • incomplete
  • inconclusive
  • inconsistent
  • inconstant
  • indecisive
  • indefinite
  • indeterminate
  • intermittent
  • irregular
  • irresolute
  • lavish
  • lengthy
  • long
  • long-winded
  • loose
  • meandering
  • mercurial
  • misleading statement
  • misleading word
  • mobile
  • moot
  • mutable
  • neutral
  • not definite
  • not sure
  • of two minds
  • on the fence
  • on-the-fence
  • open
  • open to question
  • oscillating
  • outstanding
  • overdue
  • owing
  • palaverous
  • payable
  • pendent
  • pending
  • problematic
  • problematical
  • profuse
  • prolix
  • protean
  • pussyfooting
  • quibbling
  • rambling
  • random
  • redundant
  • running hot and cold
  • shaking
  • shifting
  • shifty
  • shirking
  • shunning
  • sidestepping
  • skirting
  • slippery
  • spasmodic
  • spineless
  • straddling
  • straddling the fence
  • suppressio veri
  • temperamental
  • tentative
  • tergiversating
  • ticklish
  • timid
  • torn
  • unanswered
  • uncertain
  • unclear
  • uncommitted
  • unconcluded
  • undecided
  • undependable
  • undetermined
  • unequable
  • uneventful
  • unfinished
  • unfixed
  • unpaid
  • unreliable
  • unresolved
  • unsettled
  • unsolved
  • unstable
  • unsteady
  • unsure
  • up for grabs
  • up in the air
  • vacillating
  • vague
  • variable
  • varying
  • verbose
  • volatile
  • wavering
  • weak
  • weak-kneed
  • weaseling
  • wimpy
  • windy
  • wishy-washy
  • without guts
  • wobbly
  • yellow-bellied
  • yo-yo
  • yo-yoing

galvanic

variable

yo-yo

  • about-face
  • act reciprocally
  • airhead
  • alter
  • alternate
  • any way the wind blows
  • arbitrary
  • ass
  • assort
  • be indecisive
  • be irresolute
  • be unable to decide
  • be undecided
  • be unlike
  • beast
  • bend
  • berk
  • birdbrain
  • blockhead
  • blow hot and cold
  • blowing hot and cold
  • bonehead
  • boob
  • booby
  • boor
  • born fool
  • bottom out
  • bubblehead
  • bubbleheaded
  • budge
  • buffoon
  • buoyant
  • butt
  • bypass
  • cad
  • capricious
  • careen
  • careless
  • cavil
  • change
  • change gears
  • change mind
  • changeable
  • changeful
  • character
  • charley
  • charlie
  • cheating
  • chowderhead
  • chucklehead
  • chump
  • churl
  • circumvent
  • clod
  • clodpate
  • clodpole
  • clodpoll
  • clot
  • clown
  • cluck
  • clunk
  • codger
  • come and go
  • contrary
  • convert
  • cook
  • coquettish
  • crackbrain
  • crackpot
  • crank
  • creep
  • cretin
  • crotchety
  • cuckoo
  • cuddie
  • cuddy
  • cur
  • daredevil
  • deadhead
  • deliberate
  • depart
  • deviate
  • dial back
  • differ
  • digress
  • dilly-dally
  • dim bulb
  • dimwit
  • ding-a-ling
  • ding-dong
  • dingbat
  • dip
  • dipstick
  • disagree
  • dislocate
  • displace
  • dissent
  • disturb
  • dither
  • divaricate
  • diverge
  • diversify
  • divide
  • do up
  • dodge
  • dodo
  • dolt
  • donkey
  • doofus
  • dope
  • dork
  • double-crossing
  • drift
  • duck
  • dullard
  • dum-dum
  • dumb cluck
  • dumbbell
  • dumbhead
  • dumdum
  • dummkopf
  • dummy
  • dunce
  • dunderhead
  • dupe
  • ebb and flow
  • effervescent
  • elastic
  • elude
  • equivocate
  • erratic
  • eschew
  • evade
  • every which way
  • exchange
  • expansive
  • faithless
  • falter
  • fanciful
  • fathead
  • fault
  • featherbrain
  • featherhead
  • fence-straddle
  • fickle
  • fill in for
  • fitful
  • flaky
  • flexible
  • flicker
  • flighty
  • flip
  • flip-flop
  • fluctuate
  • fluctuating
  • fluid
  • flutter
  • follow
  • follow in turn
  • fool
  • freakish
  • frivolous
  • fudge
  • gaga
  • gander
  • gawk
  • gay
  • git
  • go up and down
  • golem
  • goof
  • goon
  • goose
  • half-wit
  • halt
  • hammerhead
  • hardhead
  • hedge
  • heel
  • helter-skelter
  • hem and haw
  • hesitate
  • hover
  • humorsome
  • idiot
  • iffy
  • ignoramus
  • imbecile
  • impulsive
  • incline
  • inconstant
  • inflect
  • interchange
  • intersperse
  • irregular
  • irrepressible
  • irresolute
  • jackass
  • jerk
  • jughead
  • kinky
  • know-nothing
  • knucklehead
  • kook
  • lamebrain
  • laughingstock
  • lean
  • lighthearted
  • lively
  • loggerhead
  • loon
  • loony
  • loser
  • lubricious
  • lummox
  • lump
  • lunatic
  • lunkhead
  • lurch
  • mad
  • madman
  • madwoman
  • meathead
  • mercurial
  • mobile
  • mockery
  • modify
  • mome
  • monkey
  • moody
  • mooncalf
  • moron
  • movable
  • move
  • move around
  • move over
  • mug
  • mutable
  • mutate
  • mutt
  • natural
  • nimrod
  • nincompoop
  • ninny
  • ninnyhammer
  • nit
  • nitwit
  • noddy
  • noodle
  • notional
  • numbskull
  • numskull
  • nut
  • nutcase
  • oaf
  • odd
  • oddball
  • oscillate
  • palter
  • part
  • pause
  • pea brain
  • pendulate
  • permutate
  • picky
  • pinhead
  • prat
  • protean
  • pulsate
  • punchy
  • pussyfoot
  • pussyfoot around
  • quibble
  • quicksilver
  • quirky
  • quiver
  • range
  • ratbag
  • rearrange
  • recalibrate
  • reel
  • relieve
  • relocate
  • remove
  • replace
  • reposition
  • resilient
  • rise and fall
  • rock
  • roll
  • rotate
  • run hot and cold
  • sap
  • saphead
  • scatterbrain
  • schlemiel
  • schlub
  • schlump
  • schnook
  • screwball
  • seesaw
  • separate
  • shake
  • shift
  • shifting
  • shifty
  • shilly-shally
  • ship
  • shirk
  • shlemiel
  • shlub
  • shuffle
  • shun
  • sidestep
  • simp
  • simpleton
  • skirt
  • skunk
  • slippery
  • snake
  • sneaking
  • spasmodic
  • spirited
  • sprightly
  • stagger
  • stinker
  • stir
  • stock
  • straddle
  • stupe
  • stupid
  • stupid person
  • substitute
  • swap places
  • sway
  • swerve
  • swing
  • switch over
  • tack
  • take turns
  • teeter
  • temperamental
  • tergiversate
  • thickhead
  • ticklish
  • totter
  • transfer
  • transform
  • transmogrify
  • transpose
  • tremble
  • trim
  • turkey
  • turn
  • turn around
  • turn the corner
  • turn the tables
  • two-timing
  • uncertain
  • undulate
  • unequable
  • unfaithful
  • unpredictable
  • unreasonable
  • unsettled
  • unstable
  • unsteady
  • untrue
  • up and down
  • up-and-down
  • vacillate
  • vacillating
  • vagarious
  • variable
  • variegate
  • vary
  • veer
  • vibrate
  • villain
  • volatile
  • waffle
  • waffling
  • wave
  • waver
  • wavering
  • wayward
  • weasel
  • weave
  • weirdo
  • whiffle
  • whimsical
  • witling
  • wobble
  • woodenhead
  • yahoo
  • zany

falling apart

  • addling
  • affecting
  • ardent
  • battered
  • bedraggled
  • breaking down
  • breaking up
  • breakup
  • broken-down
  • choking
  • collapse
  • contaminating
  • corrupting
  • cracking
  • crumbling
  • curdling
  • decay
  • decaying
  • decline
  • declining
  • decomposing
  • decrepit
  • defiling
  • degenerating
  • degeneration
  • descending
  • destruction
  • deteriorated
  • deteriorating
  • dilapidated
  • dilapidating
  • disintegrating
  • disturbed
  • ecstatic
  • emotive
  • enthusiastic
  • excitable
  • exciting
  • falling down
  • fanatical
  • feeling
  • fermenting
  • fervent
  • fervid
  • festering
  • fickle
  • fiery
  • fouling
  • going off the deep end
  • going to pieces
  • going to seed
  • heartwarming
  • heated
  • histrionic
  • histrionical
  • hot-blooded
  • hysterical
  • impassioned
  • impetuous
  • impulsive
  • in disrepair
  • in ruins
  • infirm
  • irrational
  • losing it
  • melting down
  • moldering
  • molding
  • mortifying
  • moving
  • neglected
  • nervous
  • old
  • overused
  • overwrought
  • passionate
  • pathetic
  • perishing
  • poignant
  • polluting
  • putrefying
  • ramshackle
  • responsive
  • rotting
  • roused
  • run down
  • run-down
  • running to seed
  • rusting
  • seedy
  • sensitive
  • sentient
  • sentimental
  • shabby
  • sinking
  • souring
  • spoiling
  • spontaneous
  • stirred
  • stirring
  • susceptible
  • tainting
  • tear-jerking
  • temperamental
  • tender
  • the worse for wear
  • threadbare
  • thrilling
  • touching
  • turning
  • turning off
  • unsound
  • used
  • warm
  • withering
  • worn
  • worsening
  • zealous

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