An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
TEMPERAMENTAL
erratic, temperamental
(adjective) 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
moody, temperamental
(adjective) subject to sharply varying moods; “a temperamental opera singer”
temperamental
(adjective) relating to or caused by temperament; “temperamental indifference to neatness”; “temperamental peculiarities”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
temperamental (comparative more temperamental, superlative most temperamental)
(notcomp) Of, related to, or caused by temperament.
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.
Source: Wiktionary
Tem`per*a*men"tal, a.
Definition: Of or pertaining to temperament; constitutional. [R.] Sir T. Browne.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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