TEMPERAMENT


Meaning of TEMPERAMENT in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ temprəmənt ]

( temperaments)

1.

Your temperament is your basic nature, especially as it is shown in the way that you react to situations or to other people.

His impulsive temperament regularly got him into difficulties...

She was furtive and vicious by temperament.

N-VAR

2.

Temperament is the tendency to behave in an uncontrolled, bad-tempered, or unreasonable way.

Some of the models were given to fits of temperament.

N-UNCOUNT

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