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phlegm n. 痰,粘液,粘液質,遲鈍,冷淡 痰,粘液,粘液質,遲鈍,冷淡 phlegm n 1: apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions [ synonym: { emotionlessness}, { impassivity}, { impassiveness}, { phlegm}, { indifference}, { stolidity}, { unemotionality}] 2: expectorated matter; saliva mixed with discharges from the respiratory passages; in ancient and medieval physiology it was believed to cause sluggishness [ synonym: { phlegm}, { sputum}] 3: inactivity; showing an unusual lack of energy; " the general appearance of sluggishness alarmed his friends" [ synonym: { languor}, { lethargy}, { sluggishness}, { phlegm}, { flatness}] Phlegm \ Phlegm\ ( fl[ e^] m), n. [ F. phlegme, flegme, L. phlegma, fr. Gr. fle` gma a flame, inflammation, phlegm, a morbid, clammy humor in the body, fr. fle` gein to burn. Cf. { Phlox}, { Flagrant}, { Flame}, { Bleak}, a., and { Fluminate}.] 1. One of the four humors of which the ancients supposed the blood to be composed. See { Humor}. -- Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster] 2. ( Physiol.) Viscid mucus secreted in abnormal quantity in the respiratory and digestive passages. [ 1913 Webster] 3. ( Old Chem.) A watery distilled liquor, in distinction from a spirituous liquor. -- Crabb. [ 1913 Webster] 4. Sluggishness of temperament; dullness; want of interest; indifference; coldness. [ 1913 Webster] They judge with fury, but they write with phlegm. -- Pope. [ 1913 Webster] 112 Moby Thesaurus words for " phlegm": acedia, aloofness, apathy, ataraxia, ataraxy, benumbedness, blah, blahs, boredom, calmness, chyle, colostrum, comatoseness, composure, coolness, detachment, discharge, disinterest, dispassion, drowsiness, dullness, enervation, ennui, fatigue, gleet, heartlessness, heaviness, hebetude, hopelessness, humor, ichor, impassivity, imperturbability, inanimation, inappetence, indifference, insensibility, insouciance, jadedness, lachryma, lack of appetite, lackadaisicalness, lactation, languidness, languishment, languor, languorousness, lassitude, lenitude, lentor, lethargicalness, lethargy, leukorrhea, lifelessness, listlessness, lymph, matter, milk, mucor, mucus, nonchalance, numbness, oscitancy, passiveness, passivity, peccant humor, phlegmaticalness, phlegmaticness, plucklessness, purulence, pus, resignation, resignedness, rheum, saliva, sangfroid, sanies, satedness, self- possession, serous fluid, serum, sleepiness, sloth, slothfulness, slowness, sluggishness, snot, somnolence, sopor, soporifousness, spiritlessness, spunklessness, stoicism, stolidity, stupefaction, stupor, supineness, suppuration, sweat, tear, teardrop, the whites, torpidity, torpidness, torpitude, torpor, unconcern, unresponsiveness, urine, weariness, withdrawnness, world- weariness
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