Synonyms for phlegmatic
- adjective
Most common
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Unemotional — not easily excited to action or passion; calm; sluggish
unemotional, impassive, apathetic, indifferent, stolid, stoical, stoic, dull, imperturbable, even-tempered, insensible, placid, unruffled, insouciant, world-weary, calm, lethargic, unflappable, listless, nonchalant, torpid, languid
2. Phlegmy — generating, causing, or full of phlegm
phlegmy, phlegmatous dated
Other
Definitions
- adj. 1
Not easily excited to action or passion; calm; sluggish.
- adj. 2
Generating, causing, or full of phlegm.
a phlegmatic constitution
Related words
- Word family
- phlegm phlegmatically phlegmish phlegmy
Example sentences
- apathetic It's said that the youth of today are apathetic.
- unemotional Think of me as an unemotional woman.
- impassive He remained impassive, with a sneer on his face.
- stolid His outlook on life, as with his habits were so stolid and plebeian.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| phlegmatic | steady | |
| apathetic | falling | |
| unemotional | rising | |
| impassive | rising | |
| stolid | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 4 letters
- calm1, dull1
- 5 letters
- stoic2
- 6 letters
- placid2, stolid2, torpid2
- 7 letters
- languid2, stoical, phlegmy
- 8 letters
- listless2
- 9 letters
- apathetic4, lethargic3, impassive3, unruffled3
- 10 letters
- nonchalant3, insensible4, insouciant3
- 11 letters
- indifferent3, unemotional5, unflappable4, phlegmatous
- 12 letters
- phlegmatical
- 13 letters
- imperturbable
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (stoic2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- flegmatique
- Italiano
- flemmatico
- Español
- flemático
- Deutsch
- phlegmatisch
- Català
- flegmàtic