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Phlegmatic   /flɛgmˈætɪk/   Listen
adjective
Phlegmatic  adj.  
1.
Watery. (Obs.) "Aqueous and phlegmatic."
2.
Abounding in phlegm; as, phlegmatic humors; a phlegmatic constitution.
3.
Generating or causing phlegm. "Cold and phlegmatic habitations."
4.
Not easily excited to action or passion; cold; dull; sluggish; heavy; as, a phlegmatic person.
Phlegmatic temperament (Old Physiol.), lymphatic temperament. See under Lymphatic.





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"Phlegmatic" Quotes from Famous Books



... is all this to me?" was the strange and rather phlegmatic response of the outlaw, who did not seem to take in the full meaning of his officer's speech, and whose mind, indeed, was at that moment wandering to far other considerations. Dillon seemed not ...
— Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia • William Gilmore Simms
... consumed, and part of the building had fallen into the canal and choked it up, while fifteen schuyts, waiting to be discharged of their cargoes, had been obliged to retreat from the fury of the flames, the phlegmatic skippers looking on with their pipes in their mouths, and their hands in ...
— Snarley-yow - or The Dog Fiend • Frederick Marryat
... and a phlegmatic indifference of disposition, although diametrically in opposition to each other, will produce the same results: in the former, it is mental, in the latter, animal courage. Paradoxical as it may appear, the most certain and most ...
— The King's Own • Captain Frederick Marryat
... the phlegmatic brain of her people, was stupefied for a little time, then, recovering some vivacity, she inquired hesitatingly as though she was never at her ease ...
— The Son of Clemenceau • Alexandre (fils) Dumas
... another of the boxes that were the seats in this tent-jail, which was also the courtroom of the Vigilance Committee, and mechanically counted the slow tears that trickled down between the third and fourth fingers of each hand. A half-hour spent so would have rasped the nerves of the most phlegmatic man in the town, and Jack was not phlegmatic; fifteen minutes of watching that silent weeping sufficed to bring a ...
— The Gringos • B. M. Bower


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