How do you use Temperament in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like disposition or nature, plus the exact meaning.
Temperament in a sentence
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Temperament meaning
- A person's usual manner of thinking, behaving or reacting.
- A tendency to become irritable or angry.
- The altering of certain intervals from their correct values in order to improve the moving from key to key.
Synonyms of Temperament
Using Temperament
- The main meaning on this page is: A person's usual manner of thinking, behaving or reacting. | A tendency to become irritable or angry. | The altering of certain intervals from their correct values in order to improve the moving from key to key.
- Useful related words include: disposition, nature, emotionality, emotionalism.
- In the example corpus, temperament often appears in combinations such as: temperament and, equal temperament, the temperament.
Context around Temperament
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 10 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Temperament
- In this selection, "temperament" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, equal, syntonic, meantone, scales, help and exposed stand out and add context to how "temperament" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include in equal temperament and a good temperament. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "temperament" sits close to words such as adapter, antiquity and berg, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with temperament
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Charlie has a good temperament. (5 words)
No. Ben is no Mean Joe Greene in terms of temperament or leadership qualities. (14 words)
Rachael guides parents by looking at their baby's temperament to suggest ways they can change their routine. (18 words)
Without adjusting the slide, the first to second harmonic is a perfect octave, second to third harmonic is a fifth slightly wider than equal temperament and fourth to fifth harmonic is a major third slightly narrower than in equal temperament. (40 words)
As well as being praised for his temperament, faith and good humour, the Bundroan native, who loved football and cycling, was also lauded for the relief work he carried out in some of the poorest parts of the world. (39 words)
While in equal temperament scales, enharmonics are notes with identical pitch but different spellings (e.g. A♭ and G♯); in flamenco, as in unequal temperament scales, there is a microtonal intervalic difference between enharmonic notes. (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
About this sound Equal temperament ( help · info ) An A-major scale, followed by three major triads, and then a progression of fifths in equal temperament.
In 2007, the discovery of the syntonic temperament exposed the Pythagorean tuning as being a point on the syntonic temperament's tuning continuum.
Kenneth Robinson attributes the invention of equal temperament to Zhu Zaiyu Kenneth Robinson: A critical study of Chu Tsai-yü's contribution to the theory of equal temperament in Chinese music.
Quarter-comma meantone is the best known type of meantone temperament, and the term meantone temperament is often used to refer to it specifically.
The pair of chords is repeated with a transition from equal temperament to just temperament between the two chords.
While in equal temperament scales, enharmonics are notes with identical pitch but different spellings (e.g. A♭ and G♯); in flamenco, as in unequal temperament scales, there is a microtonal intervalic difference between enharmonic notes.
Without adjusting the slide, the first to second harmonic is a perfect octave, second to third harmonic is a fifth slightly wider than equal temperament and fourth to fifth harmonic is a major third slightly narrower than in equal temperament.
As well as being praised for his temperament, faith and good humour, the Bundroan native, who loved football and cycling, was also lauded for the relief work he carried out in some of the poorest parts of the world.
Charlie has a good temperament.
Counsell has a reputation for having a moderate temperament, getting along with everyone and giving direct answers to tough questions.
For that reason, a family should determine in advance whether a particular multi-family office offers will meet the needs and suit the temperament of the family.
He thinks that the current "world music" movement is dangerous because it is forcing equal temperament and standardization on tuning systems around the world.
He was calm under fire, also maintaining his cool temperament while being constantly roasted online by trolls who do not approve of his mission to have solar power connected to domestic cricket clubs.
If the Bidens were to take that course and wanted to get another dog to live in the White House, an easygoing, amiable temperament would be ideal.
Indeed, CNN headlines the Ukrainian-Russian war as “Russia’s War on Ukraine,” thus positioning Ukraine as the underdog that is suffering under the wilful temperament of the bully Russian superdog.
It is difficult to change our temperament, so we probably can’t eliminate present bias entirely, but what we can do is account for it in our planning to increase our chances of success.
Luckily for Charlie (and surely he deserved some luck), he has a temperament that causes everyone who meets him to smile spontaneously and his owners have a wonderfully philosophical attitude to his life.
Luke sees his dad’s even temperament and ability to explain hockey in simple terms as his best coaching assets.
No. Ben is no Mean Joe Greene in terms of temperament or leadership qualities.
Rachael guides parents by looking at their baby's temperament to suggest ways they can change their routine.
Common combinations with temperament
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- temperament and 41×
- equal temperament 32×
- the temperament 16×
- and temperament 15×
- temperament to 12×
- his temperament 12×
- temperament of 7×
- temperament is 6×
- even temperament 6×
- their temperament 6×