Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

temperamentally

/tˌɛmpɹəmˈɛntəli/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.01 in modern English

Syllables: tem-per-a-men-tal-ly
IPA: /tˌɛmpɹəmˈɛntəli/

24

Scrabble Score

15

Letters

6

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adv

In a temperamental manner.

adv

By one's temperament.

Example Sentences

"The car engine coughed temperamentally before roaring into life."
"The first [phase] calls for leaders impatient with the past, and temperamentally disposed to an irreverent break with tradition. They must be agitators who can fan the flames of discontent and gather forces with the strength to tear down the old."
"Reggie was a “release” from Guiding Eyes; he kept leading his trainers into light poles, so he was deemed temperamentally unsuited to be a service dog."

Etymology

Etymology tree English temperamental Middle English -ly English -ly English temperamentally From temperamental + -ly.

Inflected Forms

more temperamentally (comparative) most temperamentally (superlative)

Rhymes With

accidentally mentally fundamentally incidentally environmentally coincidentally experimentally monumentally ornamentally continentally

Questions

How do you pronounce temperamentally?: The recorded pronunciation is /tˌɛmpɹəmˈɛntəli/.
What does temperamentally mean?: In a temperamental manner.
Where does temperamentally come from?: Etymology tree English temperamental Middle English -ly English -ly English temperamentally From temperamental + -ly.

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