Phlegmatic

Definition: Phlegmatic

Phlegmatic

Adjective

1. Showing little emotion; "a phlegmatic...and certainly undemonstrative man".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "phlegmatic" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1590. (references)

Etymology: Phlegmatic \Phleg*mat"ic\, adjective. [Latin expression phlegmaticus: compare to the French expression phlegmatique.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonym: Phlegmatic

Indifference

Adjective: indifferent, cold, frigid, lukewarm; cool, cool as a cucumber; unconcerned, insouciant, phlegmatic, pococurante, easygoing, devil-may-care, careless, listless, lackadaisical; half-hearted; unambitious, unaspiring, undesirous, unsolicitous, unattracted.

Insensibility

Apathetic; leuco-, phlegmatic; dull, frigid; cold blooded, cold hearted; cold as charity; flat, maudlin, obtuse, inert, supine, sluggish, torpid, torpedinous, torporific; sleepy; (inactive); languid, half-hearted, tame; numbed; comatose; anaesthetic; stupefied, chloroformed, drugged, stoned; palsy-stricken.

Crosswords: Phlegmatic

Corpulence makes a man reasonable, pleasant and phlegmatic. Have you noticed the nastiest of tyrants are invariably thin? (Spartacus; writing credit: Howard Fast; Dalton Trumbo)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Understand Your Temperament! A Guide to the Four Temperaments : Choleric, Sanguine, Phlegmatic, Melancholic (reference)

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Expressions using "phlegmatic": phlegmatic phlegmatical stolid ♦ phlegmatic temperament. Additional references.

Albanian

flegmatik (stolid). (various references)

Arabic 

‏بلغمي (phlegmatical, pituitary), ‏بارد (bleak, boring, chilly, cold, coldish, cool, coolly, dank, distant, flat, glacial, meaningless, phlegmatical, raw, silly, unfriendly, wintry). (various references)

Bulgarian 

флегматичен (lymphatic, stolid), муден (backward, bovine, costive, dilatory, floppy, inactive, inert, laggard, languid, long, slothful, slow, sluggish, stagnant, sulky, sullen, supine, tardy), инертен (dead, dormant, inactive, inert, nerveless, passive, quiescent, stationary). (various references)

Czech

neteèný (apathetic, impassive, indifferent, indolent, inert, lackadaisical, lethargic, passive, sleepy, sluggish, supine), lhostejný (apathetic, casual, cold, coldly, detached, impassive, impervious, indifferent, insensible, lackadaisical, neglectful, negligent, nonchalant, unconcerned, uninterested, unsympathetic), flegmatický (impassive, imperturbable, stolid, unflappable, unruffled). (various references)

Danish

flegmatisk psykopat (phlegmatic personality). (various references)

Farsi 

شخص خونسردوبی رگ , بلغمی مزاج . (various references)

Finnish

hidasluontoinen, flegmaattinen. (various references)

French

flegmatique (phlegmatical). (various references)

German

phlegmatisch (apathetic, sluggish, stolid, stolidly). (various references)

Greek 

φλεγματικόσ (phlegmatical). (various references)

Hungarian

közönyös (apathetic, apathetical, cold, detached, languid, negligent, nonchalant, pococurante, stolid, unconcerned, uninterested), flegmatikus (imperturbable, irresponsive, pokey, poky, stolid). (various references)

Italian

flemmatico (stolid). (various references)

Manx

shelleydagh, feayr-chooishagh (apathetic, frigid, impassive, imperturbable, indifferent, languid, self-possessed, unfeeling). (various references)

Pig Latin

egmaticphlay

Portuguese

impassível (coldlivered, cool, even, immovable, impassible, impassive, imperturbable, insentient, irresponsive, passionless, plodding, stolid, unabashed, unconcerned, unmoved, unperturbed, unstirred), humor (espy, frame, humor, humour, mood, Moody, wit), frio (bleak, chill, chilly, clammy, cold, cold-hearted, coldlivered, coldness, cool, devil may care, dispassionate, edge, freezing, freezing cold, frigid, frost, icerink, ill, impaste, lifeless, nipping, non-com, Parky, passionless, plodder, repulsive, reserved, soulless, tepid, unresponsive, unsympathetic, winterly, wintry), fleumático (plodder, stolid). (various references)

Romanian

stãpânit (continent, pent up, sober), indiferent (all one, all the same, anywhere, apathetic, apathetical, careless, chill, cool, dull, impassive, indifferent, indifferently, inhuman, insensible, insensitive, lackadaisical, languid, listless, nonchalant, numb, perfunctory, pococurante, reckless, remiss, slack, slow, sluggish, stolid, unconcerned, unimportant, unmoved), flegmatic (calm, cold blooded, cold-livered, irresponsive, lymphatic, unabashed), calm (calm, calmly, calmness, collected, collectedness, composed, composure, cool, coolness, dispassionate, easily, easy, equal, equanimity, even, even tempered, evenness, genial, halcyon, lull, passionless, peace, peaceful, peacefully, placid, placidity, poise, quiescent, quiet, reposeful, sedate, serene, serenity, silence, smooth, sober, sobriety, still, temper, tranquil, tranquillity, unhurried, unruffled, untroubled). (various references)

Russian 

флегматичный (lymphatic, plodder, stolid). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ravnodušan (apathetic, apathetical, cold, indifferent, listless, lukewarm, neutral, pococurante, unconcerned, uninterested), flegmatičan. (various references)

Spanish

flemático (matter of fact, phlegmatical, slow, sluggish, stolid). (various references)

Swedish

flegmatisk (phlegmy), flegmatiker. (various references)

Turkish

soğuk (aloof, angular, apathetic, apathetical, bleak, calm, chill, chilling, chilly, cold, cool, cryo-, distant, freezing, frigid, frostiness, frosty, frozen, icily, inclement, inhospitable, marble, offish, Parky, phlegmatical, remote, rigorous, saturnine, standoffish, starchy, stiff, stony, uncompanionable, unfriendly, unsympathetic, wintry), ilgisiz (aloof, apathetic, apathetical, careless, complacent, disinterested, does not apply, impertinent, incurious, indifferent, insensible, insouciant, irrelevant, listless, lukewarm, nonchalant, oblivious, phlegmatical, standoffish, superior, unallied, unconcerned, unconnected, uninterested, unobliging, unrelated), duygusuz (apathetic, apathetical, as cold as charity, bloodless, blunt, callous, coldhearted, conscience-proof, devoid of feelings, dull, frigid, hard-hearted, impassible, insensate, insensitive, marble, matter of fact, numb, obtuse, phlegmatical, senseless, soulless, steel, stolid, stony, unemotional, unfeeling, unmoved), ağır kanlı (indolent, phlegmatical, sluggish, stolid). (various references)

Ukranian 

флегматичний (cloddish, lymphatic, stolid), в'ялий (drowsy, flabby, flaccid, heavy-handed, listless, oscitant, quaggy, sapless, sleepy, stagnant). (various references)

Vietnamese 

phớt tỉnh, lạnh lùng (blood, cold, freezing), lờ phờ uể oải. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "phlegmatic": phlegmatically. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Phlegmatic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: flegmatic, phelgmatic, philegmatic, phlagmatic, phlegmati, phlemagtic, phlematic, plegmatic. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: empathic, emphatic, megalith, teiglach.

-3 letters: aphetic, chaplet, climate, ethical, gametic, haplite, hematic, hepatic, impeach, megahit, megilph, metical, pelagic, plicate.

-4 letters: aiglet, alight, aplite, atelic, caliph, camlet, caplet, chalet, chapel, chimla, chital, epical, gelati, gimlet, glitch, haemic, halite, hamlet, haptic, heliac, hepcat, hiemal, impact, impale, ligate, limpet, magilp, magpie, malice, megilp, milage, phatic, phlegm.

+4 letters: dermatoglyphic, metallographic, phlegmatically.

+5 letters: dermatoglyphics.

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