Temperament

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English

Noun

Temperament (plural Temperaments)
  1. a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting
  2. a tendency to become irritable or angry
  3. (music) the altering of certain intervals from their correct values in order to improve the moving from key to key

Adjectives for Temperament

adventurous; uncertain; artistic; cheerful; nervous; bilious; romantic; brooding; poetical; fierce; ardent; sanguine; morbid; observing; restless; nerveless; classic; high-bred; individual; aspiring; unchangeable; philanthropic; sprightly; apathetic; emotional; mercurial; equable; grave; warlike; peculiar; heroic; inborn; fervent; oratorical; impetuous; undisciplined; genial; melancholy; mournful; indolent; pugnacious; fitful; delicate; rare; sunny; passionate; peculiar ; physical; overcharged.

Verbs for Temperament

attune—to; bend—; characterize—; curse with—; display—; dispose toward—; exhibit—; fire—; foment—; harmonize—s; imbue with—; incline toward—; inflame—; influence—; inherit—; modulate—; mollify—; mould—; warp—; wrestle with—; —s clash; —flares; —indicates; —piques; — seethes; —simmers.

Thesaurus

animus, aptitude, bent, bias, body-build, brand, cast, character, characteristic, characteristics, chromatic scale, compass, complexion, composition, constituents, constitution, crasis, dharma, diapason, diathesis, disposition, dodecuple scale, eccentricity, enharmonic scale, ethos, fiber, frame, gamut, genius, grain, great scale, habit, hue, humor, humors, idiosyncrasy, ilk, inclination, individualism, individuality, kidney, kind, leaning, major scale, make, makeup, melodic minor, mental set, mentality, mettle, mind, mind-set, minor scale, mold, nature, octave scale, pentatonic scale, personality, physique, predilection, predisposition, preference, proclivity, propensity, property, quality, range, register, scale, set, slant, somatotype, sort, spirit, stamp, strain, streak, stripe, suchness, system, temper, tendency, tenor, tone, tuning, turn, turn of mind, twist, type, vein, warp, way, whole-tone scale