Sociable vs Temperamental - What's the difference?
sociable | temperamental |
Tending to socialize or be social; friendly; inviting; congenial.
* Shakespeare
Offering opportunities for conversation; characterized by much conversation.
(archaic) Capable of being, or fit to be, united in one body or company; associable.
* Hooker
(obsolete) No longer hostile; friendly.
(notcomp) of, related to, or caused by temperament
subject to changing and unpredictable emotional states; moody, capricious; sometimes used figuratively to describe user-unfriendly or unstable machines or software that are either complicated and/or have poorly written instructions and are subsequently difficult to operate.
As adjectives the difference between sociable and temperamental
is that sociable is tending to socialize or be social; friendly; inviting; congenial while temperamental is (notcomp) of, related to, or caused by temperament.sociable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- He's normally pretty quiet, but he gets much more sociable around women.
- Society is no comfort to one not sociable .
- a sociable party
- They are sociable parts united into one body.
- (Beaumont and Fletcher)
