I couldn't read his phlegmatic expression.
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Phlegmatic
//flɛɡˈmætɪk//
Synonyms for "phlegmatic" (265 found)
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Closest matches (53)
Strong matches (80)
Adjective(33 words)
Related words (132)
moribundnonchalantnumbnumbedolympianpassivepeplessphilosophicalphlegmaticalplacidplucklesspoopedregardlessresignedrestrainedsatedschizoidschizothymesedentaryself-controlled
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self-possessedsereneslacksleepingsleepyslothfulslowsluggishslumberingsmolderingsomnolentsoporificspiritlessspunklessstagnantstagnatingstandingstaticstodgystoicstoicalstolidstultifiedstupefiedsupinesuspendedsyntonetametardytemperatetorpidtranquilunaffectedunanimatedunarouseduncaringunconcernedundemonstrativeundisturbedunemotionalunenthusiasticunfeelinguninquiringuninquisitiveuninteresteduninvolvedunmindfulunmovedunperturbedunresponsiveunruffledvegetablevegetativewanwearywithdrawnworld-weary
Adjective(54 words)
nonchalantnonemotionalnonfeelingnonpassionatenonplussednonsentimentalpacatepacificpeaceablepeacefulphlegmatousphlegmyplacidpococurantequiescentquietrelaxedremissreptilianreptitious
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rooliesedatesereneshiftlessspiritlessstillstoicsupinetepidtorpedinoustorpidtranquilunarouseduncaringunconcernedunenthusiasticunexcitedunfazedunflappableunflusteredunimpressibleuninterestedunlivelyunmovableunmovedunpassionateunperturbableunruffableunruffledunsentimentaluntoucheduntumultuousunzealousworld-weary
Adjective(1 words)
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2 entriesRelated terms
4 entriescoordinate
3 entriesderived
4 entriesetymologically related_to
1 entriesrelated to
8 entriessimilar
4 entriesTranslations
45 translations across 25 languages.
Bulgarian
3 entries- муден adj (not easily excited to action)
- слузест adj (generating, causing, or full of phlegm)
- флегматичен adj (not easily excited to action)
Catalan
2 entries- flegmàtic adj (not easily excited to action)
- flegmàtic adj (generating, causing, or full of phlegm)
Czech
1 entries- flegmatický adj (not easily excited to action)
Danish
1 entries- flegmatisk adj (not easily excited to action)
Dutch
1 entries- flegmatisch adj (not easily excited to action)
Esperanto
1 entries- flegma adj (not easily excited to action)
Finnish
2 entries- flegmaattinen adj (not easily excited to action)
- flegmaatikko noun (person)
French
1 entries- flegmatique adj (not easily excited to action)
Galician
2 entries- bacento adj (not easily excited to action)
- flegmático adj (not easily excited to action)
German
2 entries- phlegmatisch adj (not easily excited to action)
- phlegmatisch adj (generating, causing, or full of phlegm)
Greek
1 entries- φλεγματικός adj (not easily excited to action)
Hebrew
1 entries- פלגמטי adj (not easily excited to action)
Interlingua
1 entries- phlegmatic adj (not easily excited to action)
Irish
1 entries- fuarchúiseach adj (not easily excited to action)
Italian
1 entries- flemmatico adj (not easily excited to action)
Macedonian
3 entries- рамно́душен adj (not easily excited to action)
- слу́зест adj (generating, causing, or full of phlegm)
- флегма́тичен adj (not easily excited to action)
Polish
1 entries- flegmatyczny adj (not easily excited to action)
Portuguese
1 entries- fleumático adj (not easily excited to action)
Romanian
4 entries- apoasa adj (watery)
- apoase adj (watery)
- apos adj (watery)
- aposi adj (watery)
Russian
2 entries- флегмати́ческий adj (not easily excited to action)
- флегмати́чный adj (not easily excited to action)
Spanish
4 entries- flegmático (disused) adj (not easily excited to action)
- flegmático (disused) adj (generating, causing, or full of phlegm)
- flemático adj (not easily excited to action)
- flemático adj (generating, causing, or full of phlegm)
Swedish
4 entries- flegmatisk adj (not easily excited to action)
- flegmatisk adj (generating, causing, or full of phlegm)
- sävlig adj (not easily excited to action)
- flegmatiker noun (person)
Tibetan
2 entries- ངང་རྒྱུད་དལ་པོ adj (not easily excited to action)
- ཉོབ་ཏོ adj (not easily excited to action)
Turkish
1 entries- balgamlı adj (generating, causing, or full of phlegm)
Ukrainian
2 entries- флегмати́чний adj (not easily excited to action)
- флегматик adj (not easily excited to action)
Sample sentences
8 total sentences available.
His disciples consider him a prophet, despite the former mathematics professor’s almost phlegmatic demeanor.
Source: tatoeba (11524513)
Calm and phlegmatic, with a clear eye, Mr. Fogg seemed a perfect type of that English composure which Angelica Kauffmann has so skilfully represented on canvas.
Source: wiktionary
2013, A.O. Scott, “How It Looks to Think: Watch Her,” Rev. of Hannah Arendt, dir. by Margarethe von Trotta, New York Times 29 May 2013: C1. Print. Their friendship (immortalized in a splendid volume of letters that has clearly served as one of Ms. von Trotta's sources) is a fascinating study in cultural and temperamental contrast, an impulsive and witty American paired with a steady, phlegmatic German.
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