Dour vs Phlegmatic - What's the difference?
dour | phlegmatic | Related terms |
Stern, harsh and forbidding.
Unyielding and obstinate.
Expressing gloom or melancholy; sullenly unhappy.
Not easily excited to action or passion; calm; sluggish.
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(archaic) Abounding in phlegm; as, phlegmatic humors; a phlegmatic constitution.
Generating, causing, or full of phlegm.
* Sir Thomas Browne
Watery (en).
Dour is a related term of phlegmatic.
As adjectives the difference between dour and phlegmatic
is that dour is stern, harsh and forbidding while phlegmatic is not easily excited to action or passion; calm; sluggish.As a noun phlegmatic is
one who has a phlegmatic disposition.dour
English
Adjective
(en-adj)Synonyms
* forbidding, harsh, severe, stern * (unyielding) obstinate, stubborn, unyielding * (expressing gloom) dejected, gloomy, melancholic, sullenDerived terms
* dourly * dournessphlegmatic
English
Alternative forms
* phlegmatick * phlegmaticke * phlegmatiqueAdjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=Calm and phlegmatic , with a clear eye, Mr. Fogg seemed a perfect type of that English composure which Angelica Kauffmann has so skilfully represented on canvas.}}
- 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.
- cold and phlegmatic habitations