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phlegmatic
/flɛɡˈmætɪk/
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What does phlegmatic mean?
adjective
- Not easily excited to action or passion; calm; sluggish.
- Generating, causing, or full of phlegm.
noun
- One who has a phlegmatic disposition.
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IPA pronunciation
/flɛɡˈmætɪk/
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Just as individual men are bright or dull, nervous or phlegmatic, cowardly or brave, so individual animals vary in like respect.
A Gallician surgeon, ignorant and phlegmatic, ordered bleedings, because he attributed the fever to what he called heat and corruption of the blood.
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Their phlegmatic, apathetic temperament, coldness of desire and deadness of feeling, want of curiosity and slowness of intellect, make the Amazonian Indians very uninteresting companions anywhere.
Sanguine and choleric temperament, the bilious, the nervous and the phlegmatic, the quick and the slow, all these are broad divisions, and no man really exemplifies them.
Where this is allowed to pervade the atmosphere of a girls' school, those who escape floods of tears or other acute hysterical symptoms are the dull, phlegmatic temperaments.