phlegmatic

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
phlegmatic
    adj 1: showing little emotion; "a phlegmatic...and certainly
           undemonstrative man" [syn: {phlegmatic}, {phlegmatical}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Phlegmatic \Phleg*mat"ic\, a. [L. phlegmaticus, Gr. ?: cf. F.
   phlegmatique.]
   1. Watery. [Obs.] "Aqueous and phlegmatic." --Sir I. Newton.
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   2. Abounding in phlegm; as, phlegmatic humors; a phlegmatic
      constitution. --Harvey.
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   3. Generating or causing phlegm. "Cold and phlegmatic
      habitations." --Sir T. Browne.
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   4. Not easily excited to action or passion; cold; dull;
      sluggish; heavy; as, a phlegmatic person. --Addison.
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   {Phlegmatic temperament} (Old Physiol.), lymphatic
      temperament. See under {Lymphatic}.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
152 Moby Thesaurus words for "phlegmatic":
      Laodicean, Olympian, abeyant, aloof, ambivert, apathetic, benumbed,
      blah, blase, bored, calm, careless, cataleptic, catatonic,
      choleric, cold, comatose, composed, controlled, cool, cycloid,
      cyclothyme, cyclothymic, dead, debilitated, desensitized, detached,
      disinterested, distant, dopey, dormant, droopy, drugged, dry, dull,
      ectomorph, endomorph, enervated, equanimous, even-tempered,
      exanimate, extrovert, flat, foul, groggy, heartless, heavy,
      hebetudinous, heedless, hopeless, impassive, imperturbable,
      in a stupor, in abeyance, in suspense, inactive, inanimate,
      incurious, indifferent, indolent, inert, insensible, insensitive,
      insouciant, introvert, jaded, lackadaisical, languid, languorous,
      latent, leaden, lethargic, lifeless, listless, logy, lumpish,
      matter-of-fact, melancholic, mesomorph, mindless, moderate,
      moribund, nonchalant, numb, numbed, passive, philosophical, placid,
      pluckless, pooped, regardless, resigned, restrained, sanguine,
      sated, schizoid, schizothyme, sedentary, self-controlled,
      self-possessed, serene, slack, sleeping, sleepy, slow, sluggish,
      slumbering, smoldering, somnolent, soporific, spiritless,
      spunkless, stagnant, stagnating, standing, static, stoic, stoical,
      stolid, stultified, stupefied, supine, suspended, syntone, tame,
      temperate, torpid, tranquil, unaffected, unanimated, unaroused,
      uncaring, unconcerned, undemonstrative, undisturbed, unemotional,
      unenthusiastic, unfeeling, uninquiring, uninterested, uninvolved,
      unmindful, unmoved, unperturbed, unresponsive, unruffled,
      vegetable, vegetative, wan, weary, withdrawn, world-weary

    

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