Definition of Phlegmatical

1. Adjective. Showing little emotion. "A phlegmatic...and certainly undemonstrative man"

Exact synonyms: Phlegmatic
Similar to: Unemotional
Derivative terms: Phlegm, Phlegm, Phlegm, Phlegm

Definition of Phlegmatical

1. a. Phlegmatic.

Definition of Phlegmatical

1. Adjective. phlegmatic ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Phlegmatical

phlebotomus
phlebotomus fever
phlebotomus fever viruses
phlebotomy
phlebotoxic
phlebovirus
phlegm
phlegmagogue
phlegmagogues
phlegmasia
phlegmasia alba dolens
phlegmasia cerulea dolens
phlegmasia dolens
phlegmasia malabarica
phlegmatic
phlegmatical (current term)
phlegmatically
phlegmatick
phlegmatics
phlegmatique
phlegmatization
phlegmatize
phlegmatized
phlegmatizer
phlegmatizers
phlegmatizes
phlegmatizing
phlegmier
phlegmiest
phlegmily

Literary usage of Phlegmatical

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"'Are my books perhaps,' quoth the innkeeper, 'heretical or phlegmatical, that you would thus roughly handle them?' 'Schismatical, thou shouldst have said,' ..."

2. The First Part of the Delightful History of the Most Ingenious Knight Don by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Thomas Shelton (1909)
"'Schis- matical, diou shouldst have said,' quoth the barber, 'and not phlegmatical.' 'It is so,' said the innkeeper; 'but if you will needs burn any, ..."

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