Phlegmatic vs Exacerbate - What's the difference?
phlegmatic | exacerbate |
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).
To make worse (pain, anger, etc.); aggravate.
* 2013 , Louise Taylor, English talent gets left behind as Premier League keeps importing'' (in ''The Guardian , 20 August 2013)[http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2013/aug/19/english-talent-premier-league-importing]
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.As a verb exacerbate is
to make worse (pain, anger, etc); aggravate.phlegmatic
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
Synonyms
* apathetic, sluggish, cold-blooded, unflappable, stoicexacerbate
English
Verb
(exacerbat)- The proposed shutdown would exacerbate unemployment problems.
- The reasons for this growing disconnect are myriad and complex but the situation is exacerbated by the reality that those English players who do smash through our game's "glass ceiling" command radically inflated transfer fees.
