Usually means: Calm, unemotional, and stolidly composed.
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General (33 matching dictionaries)
  1. phlegmatic: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. phlegmatic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. phlegmatic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. phlegmatic: Collins English Dictionary
  5. phlegmatic: Vocabulary.com
  6. Phlegmatic, phlegmatic: Wordnik
  7. phlegmatic: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. phlegmatic: Wiktionary
  9. phlegmatic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. phlegmatic: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. phlegmatic: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. phlegmatic: Dictionary.com
  13. phlegmatic: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. phlegmatic: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Phlegmatic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Phlegmatic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. phlegmatic: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. phlegmatic: Rhymezone
  19. Phlegmatic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. phlegmatic: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. phlegmatic: Free Dictionary
  22. phlegmatic: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  23. phlegmatic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. phlegmatic: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. phlegmatic: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. phlegmatic: Legal dictionary

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  2. phlegmatic: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. phlegmatic: A Word A Day
  2. phlegmatic: Wordcraft Dictionary

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  1. Phlegmatic: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Not easily excited to action or passion; calm; sluggish.
adjective:  Generating, causing, or full of phlegm.
noun:  One who has a phlegmatic disposition.

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