Optimistic vs Phlegmatic - What's the difference?
optimistic | phlegmatic |
Expecting the best in all possible ways.
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).
As adjectives the difference between optimistic and phlegmatic
is that optimistic is expecting the best in all possible ways while phlegmatic is not easily excited to action or passion; calm; sluggish.As a noun phlegmatic is
one who has a phlegmatic disposition.optimistic
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- in an optimistic mood
- optimistic plans
- took an optimistic view
Antonyms
* pessimisticphlegmatic
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