PHLEGMATIC
\flɛɡmˈatɪk], \flɛɡmˈatɪk], \f_l_ɛ_ɡ_m_ˈa_t_ɪ_k]\
Definitions of PHLEGMATIC
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Watery.
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Generating or causing phlegm.
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Not easily excited to action or passion; cold; dull; sluggish; heavy; as, a phlegmatic person.
By Oddity Software
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Watery.
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Generating or causing phlegm.
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Not easily excited to action or passion; cold; dull; sluggish; heavy; as, a phlegmatic person.
By Noah Webster.
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Watery.
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Relating to the heavy one of the four humors (see phlegm), and therefore calm, apathetic, unexcitable.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By James Champlin Fernald
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Abounding in phlegm; generating phlegm; dull; sluggish; heavy; not easily excited in action or passion.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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