Phlegmatic

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Phlegmatic \Phleg*mat"ic\, a. [L. phlegmaticus, Gr. ?: cf. F.
     phlegmatique.]
     1. Watery. [Obs.] "Aqueous and phlegmatic." --Sir I. Newton.
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     2. Abounding in phlegm; as, phlegmatic humors; a phlegmatic


        constitution. --Harvey.
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     3. Generating or causing phlegm. "Cold and phlegmatic
        habitations." --Sir T. Browne.
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     4. Not easily excited to action or passion; cold; dull;
        sluggish; heavy; as, a phlegmatic person. --Addison.
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     {Phlegmatic temperament} (Old Physiol.), lymphatic
        temperament. See under {Lymphatic}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  phlegmatic
       adj : showing little emotion; "a phlegmatic...and certainly
             undemonstrative man" [syn: {phlegmatical}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  152 Moby Thesaurus words for "phlegmatic":
     Laodicean, Olympian, abeyant, aloof, ambivert, apathetic, benumbed,
     blah, blase, bored, calm, careless, cataleptic, catatonic,
     choleric, cold, comatose, composed, controlled, cool, cycloid,
     cyclothyme, cyclothymic, dead, debilitated, desensitized, detached,
     disinterested, distant, dopey, dormant, droopy, drugged, dry, dull,
     ectomorph, endomorph, enervated, equanimous, even-tempered,
     exanimate, extrovert, flat, foul, groggy, heartless, heavy,
     hebetudinous, heedless, hopeless, impassive, imperturbable,
     in a stupor, in abeyance, in suspense, inactive, inanimate,
     incurious, indifferent, indolent, inert, insensible, insensitive,
     insouciant, introvert, jaded, lackadaisical, languid, languorous,
     latent, leaden, lethargic, lifeless, listless, logy, lumpish,
     matter-of-fact, melancholic, mesomorph, mindless, moderate,
     moribund, nonchalant, numb, numbed, passive, philosophical, placid,
     pluckless, pooped, regardless, resigned, restrained, sanguine,
     sated, schizoid, schizothyme, sedentary, self-controlled,
     self-possessed, serene, slack, sleeping, sleepy, slow, sluggish,
     slumbering, smoldering, somnolent, soporific, spiritless,
     spunkless, stagnant, stagnating, standing, static, stoic, stoical,
     stolid, stultified, stupefied, supine, suspended, syntone, tame,
     temperate, torpid, tranquil, unaffected, unanimated, unaroused,
     uncaring, unconcerned, undemonstrative, undisturbed, unemotional,
     unenthusiastic, unfeeling, uninquiring, uninterested, uninvolved,
     unmindful, unmoved, unperturbed, unresponsive, unruffled,
     vegetable, vegetative, wan, weary, withdrawn, world-weary