phlegmatically

1. 1.

   in a phlegmatic manner

   “he accepted the decision phlegmatically”

Questions about phlegmatically

What does phlegmatically mean?

phlegmatically means "in a phlegmatic manner".

How many syllables are in phlegmatically?

phlegmatically has 5 syllables and divides as phleg-ma-ti-cal-ly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is phlegmatically a common word?

phlegmatically 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.