Stony vs Phlegmatic - What's the difference?
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As hard as stone.
Containing or made up of stones.
(figuratively) Of a person, lacking warmth and emotion.
(figuratively) Of an action such as a look, showing no warmth of emotion.
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).
Stony is a related term of phlegmatic.
As adjectives the difference between stony and phlegmatic
is that stony is as hard as stone while phlegmatic is not easily excited to action or passion; calm; sluggish.As a noun phlegmatic is
one who has a phlegmatic disposition.stony
English
Adjective
(er)- a stony path
- She gave him a stony reception.
Synonyms
* (hard as stone ): as hard as iron, as hard as a rock, rock-hard * (containing stones ): pebbly, rocky, shingly * (of a person ): cold, cool, hard-hearted, heartless, impassive, unemotional, unfeeling * (of an action ): cold, cool, frosty, unwelcomingAntonyms
* (hard as stone ): soft * (of a person ): passionate, warm * (of an action ): warm, welcomingDerived terms
* stoniness * stony-facedAnagrams
* *phlegmatic
English
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