phlegmatic
adjEtymology
From Middle English fleumatik, flewmatik, flematik, fleumatyke, flewmatyk, from Old French fleumatique, from Latin phlegmaticus, from Ancient Greek φλεγματικός (phlegmatikós), from φλέγμα (phlégma), referring to the humour which ancient Hippocratic and later Galenic medicine associated with mildness, coldness, sluggishness, and indifference. Spelling later altered to resemble the word's Latin and Greek roots, with modern pronunciation following this new spelling.
- derived from φλεγματικός
- derived from phlegmaticus
- derived from fleumatique
- inherited from fleumatik
Definitions
Not easily excited to action or passion
Not easily excited to action or passion; calm; sluggish.
- Calm and phlegmatic, with a clear eye, Mr. Fogg seemed a perfect type of that English composure which Angelica Kauffmann has so skilfully represented on canvas.
Generating, causing, or full of phlegm.
- cold and phlegmatic bodies
- Near-synonyms: phlegmish, phlegmy
- phlegmatic humors
One who has a phlegmatic disposition.
The neighborhood
- neighborphlegm
- neighborphlegmatically
- neighborphlegmish
- neighborphlegmy
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for phlegmatic. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA