Modifies a noun

• humor: Heat is lost from the body in the evaporation of sweat from the skin; sweat being one aspect of the phlegmatic humor.

• temperament: A powerful choleric will not be balanced by a person with a strong phlegmatic temperament.

• character: They could tell the great vise of cruelty from a deeply wrinkled brow, or a phlegmatic character from a fat blowen visage.

• type: Quote: there must be some purpose to the phlegmatic type.

Modifying Another Word

• normally: Even the normally phlegmatic Wolff was grinning like a maniac.

• so: They understood our problems and knew we had done our best. Would people be so phlegmatic nowadays?

• too: One can only hope that Britain is too phlegmatic for the kind of tactics they favor.

Used with adjective complement

• remain: However, he remains phlegmatic: " The whole Masterprize experience was a huge positive for me.