Synonyms for phlegmatic
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
- 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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