temperament

Other forms of temperament

plural

temperaments·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about temperament

What does temperament mean?

temperament means "your usual mood". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in temperament?

temperament has 3 syllables: tem-pera-ment. The stress falls on "tem". In IPA it is /ˈtɛmpɹəmənt/.

What is another word for temperament?

Close synonyms include disposition. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is temperament a common word?

temperament is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.