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phlegmatic
What does phlegmatic mean?
phlegmatic (adjective): showing little emotion.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you use phlegmatic in a sentence?
- I couldn't read his phlegmatic expression. (Tatoeba sentence #10752548 by 58mph, CC BY 2.0 FR)
How do you pronounce phlegmatic?
/flɛɡˈmætɪk/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does phlegmatic come from?
From Middle English fleumatik, flewmatik, flematik, fleumatyke, flewmatyk, from Old French fleumatique.
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Words related to phlegmatic
From Princeton WordNet 3.1.
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What does “phlegmatic” mean?
showing little emotion
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able to read and write
Not quite: that's what literate means.
manifesting partiality
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covered in mist; foggy
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