temperamentally

English

Etymology

From temperamental +‎ -ly.

Adverb

temperamentally (comparative more temperamentally, superlative most temperamentally)

  1. In a temperamental manner.
    The car engine coughed temperamentally before roaring into life.
  2. (not comparable) By one's temperament.
    • 1996, Seymour R. Kesten, Utopian Episodes:
      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.
    • 2011 June 11, Robin Finn, “Sunday Routine: Jessica Walter”, in The New York Times‎[1], archived from the original on 18 September 2023, retrieved 5 Dec. 2011:
      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.
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