| 1. | not easily excited to action or display of emotion; apathetic; sluggish. |
| 2. | self-possessed, calm, or composed. |
| 3. | of the nature of or abounding in the humor phlegm. |

"A verry flewmatike man is in the body lustles, heuy and slow." [John of Trevisa, transl. of Bartholomew de Glanville's "De proprietatibus rerum," 1398]
phlegmatic phleg·mat·ic (flěg-māt'ĭk) or phleg·mat·i·cal (-ĭ-kəl)
adj.
Of or relating to phlegm.
Having or suggesting a calm, sluggish temperament; unemotional.