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phlegmatic

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phleg·mat·ic  (flg-mtk) also phleg·mat·i·cal (--kl)
adj.
1. Of or relating to phlegm; phlegmy.
2. Having or suggesting a calm, sluggish temperament; unemotional.

[Middle English fleumatik, from Old French fleumatique, from Late Latin phlegmaticus, full of phlegm, from Greek phlegmatikos, from phlegma, phlegmat-, heat, the humor phlegm, from phlegein, to burn; see bhel-1 in Indo-European roots.]

phleg·mati·cal·ly adv.

phlegmatic [flɛgˈmætɪk], phlegmatical
adj
1. having a stolid or unemotional disposition
2. not easily excited
phlegmatically  adv
phlegmaticalness , phlegmaticness n
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.phlegmatic - showing little emotion; "a phlegmatic...and certainly undemonstrative man"
unemotional - unsusceptible to or destitute of or showing no emotion

phlegmatic
Translations
phlegmatic [flegˈmætɪk] ADJflemático
phlegmatic [flɛgˈmætɪk] adjflegmatique
phlegmatic
adj (= cool)seelenruhig, stoisch; (= stolid)träge, schwerfällig, phlegmatisch
phlegmatic [flɛgˈmætɪk] adjflemmatico/a
phlegmatic [flɛgˈmætɪk] adjflemmatico/a


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Everything being thus mapped out with almost diabolical cunning, the main body of the redskins folded their blankets around them, and in the phlegmatic manner that is to them, the pearl of manhood squatted above the children's home, awaiting the cold moment when they should deal pale death.
After these tender contests and her victory she would go away by herself under the remotest cow, if at milking-time, or into the sedge, or into her room, if at a leisure interval, and mourn silently, not a minute after an apparently phlegmatic negative.
murmured the doctor, who had recovered all his phlegmatic coolness.
 
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