Capricious vs Temperament - What's the difference?
capricious | temperament |
Impulsive and unpredictable; determined by chance, impulse, or whim
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(obsolete) A moderate and proportionable mixture of elements or ingredients in a compound; the condition in which elements are mixed in their proper proportions.
(obsolete) Any state or condition as determined by the proportion of its ingredients or the manner in which they are mixed; consistence, composition; mixture.
a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting
a tendency to become irritable or angry
(music) the altering of certain intervals from their correct values in order to improve the moving from key to key
As an adjective capricious
is impulsive and unpredictable; determined by chance, impulse, or whim.As a noun temperament is
temperament, character.capricious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- I almost died in a capricious winter storm.
- Stringent rulers are unlikely to act capriciously .
- The Mayor claimed that the action was reasonable, but in reality the action was arbitrary and capricious in nature.
