MEANING
Slow to show excitement or strong emotional reaction.
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- phlegmatic manner
- phlegmatic response
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His phlegmatic response calmed the argument.
The phlegmatic porter barely looked up.
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Primary category: literary. Forms: Comparative more phlegmatic; superlative most phlegmatic where gradation is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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