phlegmatic

adjective · nounB2

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Tính từ

adjective

Comparative

more phlegmaticmost phlegmaticphlegmatick

Superlative

phlegmatickephlegmatique

1.
Not easily excited to action or passion; calm; sluggish.
2013, A.O. Scott, “How It Looks to Think: Watch Her,” Rev. of Hannah Arendt, dir. by Margarethe von Trotta, New York Times 29 May 2013: C1. Print. Their friendship (immortalized in a splendid volume of letters that has clearly served as one of Ms. von Trotta's sources) is a fascinating study in cultural and temperamental contrast, an impulsive and witty American paired with a steady, phlegmatic German.
Đồng nghĩa: apathetic, cold-blooded, phlegmish, unflappable, stoic, adiaphroistic, apathetic, apathistical, blasé, blithe, deaf, cool, shiftless, dispassionate, dull, enervated, gallionic, halfhearted, heartless, impassive, ineffervescible, insouciant, indifferent, insensible, jaded, languid, languorous, Laodicean, lethargic, listless, lackadaisical, lotophagous, lukewarm, meh, mopey, nonchalant, nonplussed, otiose, phlegmatic, pococurante, spiritless, supine, tepid, torpid, torpedinous, unaroused, uncaring, unconcerned, unenthusiastic, unimpressible, uninterested, unlively, unmoved, untouched, unzealous, world-weary, calm, collected, composed, cool-headed, equable, equanimous, equanimitable, even-keeled, even-minded, even-tempered, imperturbable, laid-back, level-headed, mellow, pacate, pacific, peaceable, peaceful, phlegmatic, placid, quiescent, quiet, relaxed, roolie, sedate, serene, still, tranquil, unexcited, unfazed, unflappable, unflustered, unperturbable, unruffable, unruffled, untumultuous
2.
Generating, causing, or full of phlegm.
Near-synonyms: phlegmish, phlegmy
phlegmatic humors
a phlegmatic constitution
Đồng nghĩa: phlegmatous, phlegmish, phlegmy

Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

phlegmaticsphlegmatickphlegmatickephlegmatique

1.
One who has a phlegmatic disposition.

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Đồng nghĩa

apatheticcold-bloodedphlegmishunflappable stoicadiaphroisticapathisticalblaséblithe deaf cool shiftless dispassionate dull enervatedgallionichalfheartedheartlessimpassiveineffervescible

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From Middle English fleumatik, flewmatik, flematik, fleumatyke, flewmatyk, from Old French fleumatique, from Latin phlegmaticus, from Ancient Greek φλεγματικός, from φλέγμα, referring to the humour which ancient Hippocratic and later Galenic medicine associated with mildness, coldness, sluggishness, and indifference.