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Temperamental vs Flaky - What's the difference?

temperamental | flaky |

As adjectives the difference between temperamental and flaky

is that temperamental is (notcomp) of, related to, or caused by temperament while flaky is consisting of flakes or of small, loose masses; lying, or cleaving off, in flakes or layers; flakelike.

temperamental

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (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.

    • Derived terms

    * temperamentally

    flaky

    English

    Alternative forms

    * flakey

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Consisting of flakes or of small, loose masses; lying, or cleaving off, in flakes or layers; flakelike.
  • (informal, of a, person) Unreliable; prone to make plans with others but then abandon those plans.
    • Some of his friends were flaky .
  • (informal, of a, thing) Unreliable; working only on an intermittent basis; prone to cease functioning properly.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011, date=September 16, author=Ben Dirs, title=Rugby World Cup 2011: New Zealand 83-7 Japan, work=BBC Sport citation
    • , passage=Toeava went over unopposed to stretch his side's lead but Japan got on the scoreboard on 56 minutes, wing Hirotoki Onozawa intercepting an attempted offload from Slade, who had a rather flaky game, and running in from the All Blacks' 10m line.}}
    I cannot enjoy the online game because of my flaky Internet connection.