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phlegmatic

English

Alternative forms

  • phlegmatick
  • phlegmaticke
  • phlegmatique

Etymology

From Old French fleumatique, from Latin phlegmaticus, from Ancient Greek ??????????? (phlegmatikós), from ?????? (phlégma).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fl???mæt?k/
  • Rhymes: -æt?k

Adjective

phlegmatic (comparative more phlegmatic, superlative most phlegmatic)

  1. Not easily excited to action or passion; calm; sluggish.
    • 2013, A.O. Scott, “How It Looks to Think: Watch Her,” Rev. of Hannah Arendt, dir. by Margarethe von Trotta, New York Times 29 May 2013: C1. Print.
      Their friendship (immortalized in a splendid volume of letters that has clearly served as one of Ms. von Trotta's sources) is a fascinating study in cultural and temperamental contrast, an impulsive and witty American paired with a steady, phlegmatic German.
  2. (archaic) Abounding in phlegm.
  3. Generating, causing, or full of phlegm.

Synonyms

  • (calm and reasonable, tending not to get upset): apathetic, sluggish, cold-blooded, unflappable, stoic
  • See also Thesaurus:calm

Coordinate terms

  • choleric
  • melancholic
  • sanguine

Related terms

  • phlegm
  • phlegmatically

Translations

Noun

phlegmatic (plural phlegmatics)

  1. One who has a phlegmatic disposition.

Translations

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idle

English

Etymology

From Middle English idel, ydel, from Old English ?del, from Proto-Germanic *?dalaz. Cognate with Dutch ijdel (vain, meaningless), German Low German iedel (vain, idle), German eitel (vain, conceited), and possibly Old Norse illr ("bad"; > English ill).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: ??d(?)l, IPA(key): /?a?d(?)l/
  • Rhymes: -a?d?l
  • Homophones: idol, idyll, idyl (US pronunciation)

Adjective

idle (comparative more idle, superlative most idle)

  1. (obsolete) Empty, vacant.
  2. Not being used appropriately; not occupied; (of time) with no, no important, or not much activity.
  3. Not engaged in any occupation or employment; unemployed; inactive; doing nothing in particular.
  4. Averse to work, labor or employment; lazy; slothful.
    • “I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, the gorged dowagers, the worn-out, passionless men, the enervated matrons of the summer capital, []!”
  5. Of no importance; useless; worthless; vain; trifling; thoughtless; silly.
  6. (obsolete) Light-headed; foolish.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Ford to this entry?)

Synonyms

  • (of no importance): pointless
  • See also Thesaurus:lazy

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

idle (third-person singular simple present idles, present participle idling, simple past and past participle idled)

  1. (transitive) To spend in idleness; to waste; to consume.
  2. (intransitive) To lose or spend time doing nothing, or without being employed in business.
    to idle in an IRC channel
    • 1939, Joan Evans, Chateaubriand (page 32)
      He had already heard of the young man's projected journey — evidently the Comte de Combourg had written many letters while his son idled at St. Malo []
  3. (intransitive) Of an engine: to run at a slow speed, or out of gear; to tick over.

Derived terms

  • idler

Related terms

  • (sense 3) idling speed

Translations

Noun

idle (plural idles)

  1. The state of idling, of being idle.
  2. (gaming) An idle animation.
  3. (gaming) An idle game.
    Synonyms: idle game, incremental game

References

  • idle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • idle in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
  • idle in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

  • Diel, deli, diel, eild, lied

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