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phlegmatic

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adjectivenoun
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As an adjective, phlegmatic means not easily excited to action or passion. As a noun, it means one who has a phlegmatic disposition.

Meanings of phlegmatic

5 meanings

adjective

  1. Not easily excited to action or passion; calm; sluggish.

  2. Generating, causing, or full of phlegm.

  3. Showing little emotion

    “a phlegmatic … and certainly undemonstrative man”

    Similar: phlegmatical
Older and rare meanings (1)

  1. archaicAbounding in phlegm.

    “phlegmatic humors”

    “a phlegmatic constitution”

noun

  1. One who has a phlegmatic disposition.

Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).

Synonyms by meaning

adjective: showing little emotion
phlegmatical

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