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[syn: phlegmatic, phlegmatical]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
phlegmatic
adj 1: showing little emotion; "a phlegmatic...and certainly
undemonstrative man" [syn: phlegmatic, phlegmatical]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
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