Untouched vs Phlegmatic - What's the difference?
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Remaining in its original, pristine state, undamaged.
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Not influenced, affected or swayed.
Not having come in contact.
Not talked about.
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 untouched and phlegmatic
is that untouched is remaining in its original, pristine state, undamaged while phlegmatic is not easily excited to action or passion; calm; sluggish.As a noun phlegmatic is
one who has a phlegmatic disposition.untouched
English
Alternative forms
* untoucht (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)John Vidal
Dams endanger ecology of Himalayas, passage=Most of the Himalayan rivers have been relatively untouched by dams near their sources. Now the two great Asian powers, India and China, are rushing to harness them as they cut through some of the world's deepest valleys.}}
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
