phlegmatic
11phlegmatic — phleg|mat|ic [flegˈmætık] adj calm and not easily excited or worried ▪ The taxi driver, a phlegmatic man in middle age, showed no surprise at this request. >phlegmatically [ kli] adv …
12phlegmatic — adjective calm and not easily excited or worried: Even the most phlegmatic individual would get stressed out under such pressure. phlegmatically / kli/ adverb …
13phlegmatic — adjective I come from a very demonstrative, emotional Italian family I can t remember one phlegmatic moment from my childhood Syn: calm, cool, composed, calm, cool, and collected , controlled, serene, tranquil, placid, impassive, imperturbable,… …
14phlegmatic — /flɛgˈmætɪk / (say fleg matik) adjective 1. not easily excited to action or feeling; sluggish or apathetic. 2. cool or self possessed. 3. characterised by the production of phlegm: a phlegmatic cough. 4. (in old physiology) of the nature of or… …
15Phlegmatic temperament — Phlegmatic Phleg*mat ic, a. [L. phlegmaticus, Gr. ?: cf. F. phlegmatique.] 1. Watery. [Obs.] Aqueous and phlegmatic. Sir I. Newton. [1913 Webster] 2. Abounding in phlegm; as, phlegmatic humors; a phlegmatic constitution. Harvey. [1913 Webster] 3 …
16phlegmatic phlegmatical stolid — emotionless e*mo tion*less adj. 1. unsusceptible to, destitute of, or showing no emotion; unmoved by feeling. Opposite of {emotional}; as, he kept his emotionless objectivity and faith in the cause he served. [Narrower terms: {matter of fact,… …
17phlegmatic — adjective Date: 14th century 1. resembling, consisting of, or producing the humor phlegm 2. having or showing a slow and stolid temperament Synonyms: see impassive • phlegmatically adverb …
18phlegmatic — phlegmatically, adv. phlegmaticalness, phlegmaticness, n. /fleg mat ik/, adj. 1. not easily excited to action or display of emotion; apathetic; sluggish. 2. self possessed, calm, or composed. 3. of the nature of or abounding in the humor phlegm.… …
19phlegmatic — Relating to the heavy one of the four ancient Greek humors (see phlegm), and therefore calm, apathetic, unexcitable. [G. phlegmatikos, relating to phlegm] * * * phleg·mat·ic fleg mat ik adj 1) resembling, consisting of, or producing the humor… …
20phlegmatic — Synonyms and related words: Laodicean, Olympian, abeyant, aloof, ambivert, apathetic, benumbed, blah, blase, bored, calm, careless, cataleptic, catatonic, choleric, cold, comatose, composed, controlled, cool, cycloid, cyclothyme, cyclothymic,… …
