phlegmatical

1. 1.

   showing little emotion

   “a phlegmatic...and certainly undemonstrative man”

   Synonymsphlegmatic

   Similarunemotional

Questions about phlegmatical

What does phlegmatical mean?

phlegmatical means "showing little emotion".

How many syllables are in phlegmatical?

phlegmatical has 4 syllables: phleg-ma-ti-cal. The stress falls on "ma".

What is another word for phlegmatical?

Close synonyms include phlegmatic. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is phlegmatical a common word?

phlegmatical is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.