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Grammar : Adj
Spell : fleg-mat-ik or fleg-mat-i-kuhl
Phonetic Transcription : flɛgˈmæt ɪk or flɛgˈmæt ɪ kəl

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Définition of phlegmatic

Origin :
  • "cool, calm, self-possessed," and in a more pejorative sense, "cold, dull, apathetic," 1570s, from literal sense "abounding in phlegm (as a bodily humor)" (mid-14c., fleumatik), from Old French fleumatique (13c., Modern French flegmatique), from Late Latin phlegmaticus, from Greek phlegmatikos "abounding in phlegm" (see phlegm).
  • A verry flewmatike man is in the body lustles, heuy and slow. [John of Trevisa, translation of Bartholomew de Glanville's "De proprietatibus rerum," 1398]
  • adj unemotional
Example sentences :
  • They were a phlegmatic race, placid, unimaginative, reposeful.
  • Extract from : « The Conquest of Fear » by Basil King
  • The constables were fat, phlegmatic, and anything but heroic.
  • Extract from : « The Hunted Outlaw » by Anonymous
  • He was a phlegmatic, heavy Dutchman, and seemed decent enough.
  • Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930 » by Various
  • This phlegmatic animal had been enjoying himself for the last half hour.
  • Extract from : « Fair Harbor » by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
  • Then we beheld a spectacle calculated to thrill the most phlegmatic fisherman.
  • Extract from : « Tales of Fishes » by Zane Grey
  • The phlegmatic Englishman stamps and gesticulates with all the energy of a madman.
  • Extract from : « Nuts and Nutcrackers » by Charles James Lever
  • Within a few hours, their phlegmatic blandness had begun to pass.
  • Extract from : « The Status Civilization » by Robert Sheckley
  • The Duke was a ton of a little man with the phlegmatic Dutch face.
  • Extract from : « A Daughter of Raasay » by William MacLeod Raine
  • Yet he is not phlegmatic; indeed, he is extraordinarily animated.
  • Extract from : « Frenzied Finance » by Thomas W. Lawson
  • Nevertheless, we would not have it understood that Will was a slow, phlegmatic baby.
  • Extract from : « Sunk at Sea » by R.M. Ballantyne
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