phlegmatic
pronunciation
How to pronounce phlegmatic in British English:
UK [flegˈmætɪk]
How to pronounce phlegmatic in American English:
US [flɛɡˈmætɪk]
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- Adjective:
- showing little emotion
Word Origin
- phlegmatic (adj.)
- "cool, calm, self-possessed," and in a more pejorative sense, "cold, dull, apathetic," 1570s, from literal sense "abounding in phlegm (as a bodily humor)" (mid-14c., fleumatik), from Old French fleumatique (13c., Modern French flegmatique), from Late Latin phlegmaticus, from Greek phlegmatikos "abounding in phlegm" (see phlegm).A verry flewmatike man is in the body lustles, heuy and slow. [John of Trevisa, translation of Bartholomew de Glanville's "De proprietatibus rerum," 1398]
Example
- 1. No other city in india bears such colossal inconveniences with such phlegmatic grace .
- 2. The places he looked at ranged from phlegmatic britain , with a neuroticism score of - 0.8 and a toxoplasma infection rate of 6.6 % , to hot-blooded france , which scored 1.8 and had an infection rate of 45 % .
- 3. People within these cultures are more phlegmatic and contemplative ; their environment does not expect them to express emotions .
- 4. In pudong , the skyscraper district of shanghai , office workers are calm and phlegmatic .
- 5. Fast forward to the huijin announcement this week , and the phlegmatic reaction of chinese investors makes more sense .