Lazy vs Phlegmatic - What's the difference?
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Unwilling to do work or make an effort.
Requiring little or no effort.
Relaxed or leisurely.
(label) Of an eye, squinting because of a weakness of the eye muscles.
(label) Turned so that the letter is horizontal instead of vertical.
(label) Employing lazy evaluation; not calculating results until they are immediately required.
wicked; vicious
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).
Lazy is a related term of phlegmatic.
As a verb lazy
is .As an adjective phlegmatic is
not easily excited to action or passion; calm; sluggish.As a noun phlegmatic is
one who has a phlegmatic disposition.lazy
English
Adjective
(er)- (Ben Jonson)
Usage notes
* Nouns to which "lazy" is often applied: person, man, woman, bastard, morning, day, time, way.Synonyms
* (unwilling to work) bone-idle, idle, indolent, slothful, work-shy * See alsoDerived terms
* laze * laziness * lazybones * lazy evaluation * lazy eye * lazy Susanphlegmatic
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Alternative forms
* phlegmatick * phlegmaticke * phlegmatiqueAdjective
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- 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
