phlegm

phlegm is a 6-letter English word with 7 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: One of the four humors of which the ancients supposed the blood to be composed. See Humor. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 17 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. One of the four humors of which the ancients supposed the blood to be composed. See Humor.
2. adjective. Viscid mucus secreted in abnormal quantity in the respiratory and digestive passages.
3. adjective. A watery distilled liquor, in distinction from a spirituous liquor.
4. adjective. Sluggishness of temperament; dullness; want of interest; indifference; coldness.
5. noun. inactivity; showing an unusual lack of energy

   "the general appearance of sluggishness alarmed his friends"

   Synonyms: flatness, languor, lethargy, sluggishness

6. noun. expectorated matter; saliva mixed with discharges from the respiratory passages; in ancient and medieval physiology it was believed to cause sluggishness

   Synonyms: sputum

7. noun. apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions

   Synonyms: emotionlessness, impassiveness, impassivity, indifference, stolidity, unemotionality

Synonyms

flatness, languor, lethargy, sluggishness, sputum, emotionlessness, impassiveness, impassivity, indifference, stolidity, unemotionality

Common word forms

phlegms, phlegmless

Words from these letters

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