Phlegmatic

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Of or relating to phlegm; phlegmy.
  • adj. Having or suggesting a calm, sluggish temperament; unemotional.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Not easily excited to action or passion; calm; sluggish.
  • adj. Abounding in phlegm; as, phlegmatic humors; a phlegmatic constitution.
  • adj. Generating, causing, or full of phlegm.
  • adj. Watery.
  • n. One who has a phlegmatic disposition.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Watery.
  • adj. Abounding in phlegm
  • adj. Generating or causing phlegm.
  • adj. Not easily excited to action or passion; cold; dull; sluggish; heavy.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Of the nature of phlegm; watery; aqueous: as, phlegmatic humors.
  • Generating or causing phlegm.
  • Abounding in phlegm; lymphatic; hence, cold; dull; sluggish; heavy; not easily excited to action or passion; apathetic; cool and self-restrained: as, a phlegmatic temperament. See temperament.
  • Synonyms Frigid, impassive, unsusceptible. See apathy.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. showing little emotion
  • Equivalent
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    watery    cold    dull    sluggish    heavy    calm    stoic    cold-blooded    unflappable    apathetic   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Adriatic    Asiatic    Attic    Charismatic    Democratic    Hanseatic    Hippocratic    Socratic    acrobatic    adriatic   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    stolid    apathetic    impassive    listless    unmoved    sluggish    lethargic    placid    unemotional    imperturbable