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
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
9 May 2025
(noun) anything in accord with principles of justice; “he feels he is in the right”; “the rightfulness of his claim”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
