Temperament is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for TEMPERAMENT in dictionary:

VERB:
• Internal constitution; state with respect to the relative proportion of different qualities, or constituent parts.
• Due mixture of qualities; a condition brought about by mutual compromises or concessions.
• The act of tempering or modifying; adjustment, as of clashing rules, interests, passions, or the like; also, the means by which such adjustment is effected.
• Condition with regard to heat or cold; temperature.
• A system of compromises in the tuning of organs, pianofortes, and the like, whereby the tones generated with the vibrations of a ground tone are mutually modified and in part canceled, until their number reduced to the actual practicable scale of twelve tones to the octave. This scale, although in so far artificial, is yet closely suggestive of its origin in nature, and this system of tuning, although not mathematically true, yet satisfies the ear, while it has the convenience that the same twelve fixed tones answer for every key or scale, C/ becoming identical with D/, and so on.
• The peculiar physical and mental character of an individual, in olden times erroneously supposed to be due to individual variation in the relations and proportions of the constituent parts of the body, especially of the fluids, as the bile, blood, lymph, etc. Hence the phrases, bilious or choleric temperament, sanguine temperament, etc., implying a predominance of one of these fluids and a corresponding influence on the temperament.
NOUN:
• disposition, personality, esp. with regard to emotional makeup
• the tendency to behave angrily or emotionally
• the adjustment of intervals in tuning a piano or other musical instrument so as to fit the scale for use in different keys; in equal temperament, the octave consists of twelve equal semitones
• disposition, personality, esp with regard to emotional make-up
• your usual mood
• excessive emotionalism or irritability and excitability (especially when displayed openly)
• an adjustment of the intervals (as in tuning a keyboard instrument) so that the scale can be used to play in different keys
• a person's or animal's nature, especially as it permanently affects their behaviour
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• obsolete constitution of a substance, body, or organism with respect to the mixture or balance of its elements, qualities, or parts; makeup; complexion

Words related to TEMPERAMENT

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Words that contain TEMPERAMENT

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How to use TEMPERAMENT in a sentence

• The chief difference between the two novelists, however, is not one of environment but of temperament.
• He had fought with the tense earnestness of the nervous temperament that fights to win without count of the cost.
• The next point, all the preachers should be men of peculiar temperament and great simplicity of manner.
• The Thurstons had temperament, and temperament is quite often the highway to the divorce court.
• No doubt there is such a thing as sunshine of temperament.
• In irresponsibility he read, agreeably, needful temperament.
• Hence when a number of people professed to have such communication, she was not merely ready to listen to their claims, but was by temperament inclined to accept them.
• To pause in the movement of advance was, with a half-civilized race of unstable temperament, to risk everything.
• For one of my nature and temperament it was a position at once grotesque and tragic.
• He has the large head which usually shows an active temperament, and we fancy that he is somewhat masterful in his ways.
• If with all these there are the musical ear and the artistic temperament, we have the singer who is born great.
• Moreover, for one of his artistically sensitive temperament London possessed a magnetic charm that was lacking in Berlin.
• It is obvious that to a man of his poetic temperament they may have appeared in a different light from what they did to the ordinary government agent.
• They were men in full agreement on the main questions, but with great differences in temperament and habits of thought.
• Because of her upbringing and temperament she was not the girl to count the cost in anything she did.
• Valentinian was incapable and vicious, while Honoria, who had inherited much of the romantic temperament of her mother, was both unscrupulous and irresponsible.
• Giorgione, Schubert, and Keats are alike in temperament and quality of expression.
• No doubt temperament, and, above all, age, have a good deal to do with it.
• Elizabeth, who differed from her father in not caring a straw for theology, was by temperament and policy conservative.
• The temperament is not the same, not a survival or a revival of the antique, but original and living.
• Being a scientist in the cast of his intellect, although by temperament a poet, he believes in environment as the shaping power conceived of by Taine and Zola.
• The ancient character of Musselburg seemed to have been as congenial to his temperament as Nuremberg was to that of Hans Sachs.
• An ardent, impetuous, over-genial temperament was the cause of frequent irregularities in conduct.
• The ruddy faces of the men were become green, blue, yellow, and purple, according to temperament, but few were flesh-coloured or red.

Similar words containing TEMPERAM without suffix ent

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