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temperamentally

adv

Etymology

From temperamental + -ly.

  1. derived from temperāmentum
  2. derived from tempérament
  3. inherited from temperament
  4. suffixed as temperamental — “temperament + al”
  5. formed as temperamentally — “temperamental + -ly”

Definitions

  1. In a temperamental manner.

    • The car engine coughed temperamentally before roaring into life.

  2. By one's temperament.

    • 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at temperamentally. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at temperamentally. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

6 hops · closes at temperamentally

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA