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Phlegmatical

Definition: Phlegmatical

Phlegmatical

Adjective

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

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


Synonym: Phlegmatical

Synonym: phlegmatic (adj). (additional references)

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Expression: Phlegmatical

Expression using "phlegmatical": phlegmatic phlegmatical stolid. Additional references.

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

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Modern Translations: Phlegmatical

Language Translations for "phlegmatical"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏رابط الجأش (collected, composed, cool, cucumber, imperturbable, nonchalant, philosophical, possessed, self possessed), ‏بلغمي (phlegmatic, pituitary), ‏بارد (bleak, boring, chilly, cold, coldish, cool, coolly, dank, distant, flat, glacial, meaningless, phlegmatic, raw, silly, unfriendly, wintry). (various references)

   

French

  

flegmatique (phlegmatic). (various references)

   

German

  

phlegmatischen. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

φλεγματικόσ (phlegmatic). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

קר מזג (apathetic, cold tempered), פלגמטי. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

egmaticalphlay

   

Spanish

  

flemático (matter of fact, phlegmatic, slow, sluggish, stolid). (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, phlegmatic, 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, phlegmatic, 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, phlegmatic, senseless, soulless, steel, stolid, stony, unemotional, unfeeling, unmoved), ağır kanlı (indolent, phlegmatic, sluggish, stolid). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Phlegmatical

Derivations

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

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Phlegmatical"

Words rhyming with "phlegmatical" (pronounced 'Phleg*mat"ic*al'): Abactinal, Abbatial, Abbatical, Abdal, Aberrational, Abettal, Abhal, Abhominal, Abiological, Abnormal, Aboral, Abortional, Abranchial, Absinthial, Abstractional, Abuttal, Abysmal, Abyssal, Academial, Accentual, Accessional, Accessorial, Accipitral, Accrementitial, Accrual, Accusal, Accusatival, Accusatorial, Acephal, Acerval, Acetal, Achenial, Acnodal, Aconital, Acoustical, Acquittal, Acranial, Acritical, Acromial, Acropetal, Acroterial, Actinal, Actinozoal, Actuarial, Adagial, Adambulacral, Adaptorial, Adenological, Adjectional, Adjectival. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Phlegmatical

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-g-h-i-l-l-m-p-t"

-2 letters: phlegmatic.

-3 letters: caliphate, lamplight, malachite.

-4 letters: achillea, calamite, caliphal, camellia, climatal, empathic, emphatic, glaciate, haematic, haptical, heliacal, hepatica, megalith, megillah, metallic, palliate, pelagial, taiglach, taillamp, teiglach, thalamic.

-5 letters: acaleph, agapeic, aphelia, aphetic, calathi, camelia, capital, chaetal, challie, chapati, chaplet, climate, ethical, gallate, galleta, gametic, glacial, haplite, helical, hellcat, hematal, hematic, hepatic, impeach, lacteal, magical.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-g-h-i-l-l-m-p-t"
 

+2 letters: metallographic, phlegmatically.

 

+5 letters: metapsychological, thermographically.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Phlegmatical


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

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Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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