phlegmatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /flɛɡˈmætɪk/
rhymes: -ætɪk
Forms: form: more phlegmatic
form: most phlegmatic
form: phlegmatick
form: phlegmaticke
form: phlegmatique
Etymology: From Middle English fleumatik, flewmatik, flematik, fleumatyke, flewmatyk, from Old French fleumatique, from Latin phlegmaticus, from Ancient Greek φλεγματικός (phlegmatikós), from φλέγμα (phlégma). Spelling later altered to resemble the word's Latin and Greek roots, with modern pronunciation following this new spelling.
Senses: examples: text: Calm and phlegmatic, with a clear eye, Mr. Fogg seemed a perfect type of that English composure which Angelica Kauffmann has so skilfully represented on canvas.
ref: 1873, Jules Verne, chapter 2, in Around the World in 80 Days, archived from the original on 12 Apr 2012:
text: 2013, A.O. Scott, “How It Looks to Think: Watch Her,” Rev. of Hannah Arendt, dir. by Margarethe von Trotta, New York Times 29 May 2013: C1. Print.
Their friendship (immortalized in a splendid volume of letters that has clearly served as one of Ms. von Trotta's sources) is a fascinating study in cultural and temperamental contrast, an impulsive and witty American paired with a steady, phlegmatic German.
synonyms: word: apathetic
word: cold-blooded
word: phlegmish
word: unflappable
word: stoic
word: adiaphroistic
word: apathetic
word: apathistical
word: blasé
word: deaf
word: cool
word: shiftless
word: dispassionate
word: dull
word: enervated
word: gallionic
word: halfhearted
word: heartless
word: impassive
word: ineffervescible
word: insouciant
word: indifferent
word: insensible
word: jaded
word: languid
word: languorous
word: Laodicean
word: lethargic
word: listless
word: lackadaisical
word: lotophagous
word: lukewarm
word: mopey
word: nonchalant
word: nonplussed
word: phlegmatic
word: pococurante
word: spiritless
word: supine
word: tepid
word: torpid
word: torpedinous
word: unaroused
word: uncaring
word: unconcerned
word: unenthusiastic
word: unimpressible
word: uninterested
word: unlively
word: unmoved
word: untouched
word: unzealous
word: world-weary
word: calm
word: collected
word: composed
word: cool-headed
word: equable
word: equanimous
word: equanimitable
word: even-keeled
word: even-minded
word: even-tempered
word: imperturbable
word: laid-back
word: level-headed
word: mellow
word: pacate
word: pacific
word: peaceable
word: peaceful
word: phlegmatic
word: placid
word: quiescent
word: quiet
word: relaxed
word: roolie
word: sedate
word: serene
word: still
word: tranquil
word: unexcited
word: unfazed
word: unflappable
word: unflustered
word: unperturbable
word: unruffable
word: unruffled
word: untumultuous
glosses: Not easily excited to action or passion; calm; sluggish.
examples: text: cold and phlegmatic bodies
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
text: Near-synonyms: phlegmish, phlegmy
text: phlegmatic humors
text: a phlegmatic constitution
synonyms: word: phlegmatous
glosses: Generating, causing, or full of phlegm.
Coordinate terms: choleric
melancholic
sanguine
Derived terms: apophlegmatic
leucophlegmatic
sanguineophlegmatic
unphlegmatic
Related terms: word: phlegm
word: phlegmatically
english: occasionally synonymous
translation: occasionally synonymous
word: phlegmish
english: occasionally synonymous
translation: occasionally synonymous
word: phlegmy