temperament
temperament is a 11-letter English word with 9 senses as transitive verb and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Internal constitution; state with respect to the relative proportion of different qualities, or constituent parts. Face value is 17 in Scrabble and 21 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- transitive verb. Internal constitution; state with respect to the relative proportion of different qualities, or constituent parts.
- transitive verb. Due mixture of qualities; a condition brought about by mutual compromises or concessions.
- transitive verb. 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.
- transitive verb. Condition with regard to heat or cold; temperature.
- transitive verb. 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.
- transitive verb. 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. an adjustment of the intervals (as in tuning a keyboard instrument) so that the scale can be used to play in different keys
- noun. your usual mood
"he has a happy disposition"
- noun. excessive emotionalism or irritability and excitability (especially when displayed openly)
Synonyms
Common word forms
temperaments, temperamental, temperamented
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