Definition of "lymphatic" adjective comparative more lymphatic , superlative most lymphatic
Lacking energy or enthusiasm ; having characteristics once associated with an excess of lymph : lack of muscle tone , paleness , sluggishness , etc . quotations examples
Quotations Eleonore Lemindre , aged 34, tailoress , of a sanguine lymphatic temperament , having suffered great depression of spirits , experienced , in the course of 1820, symptoms of what is called disease of the heart .
1833, R. J. Bertin, translated by Charles W. Chauncy, Treatise on the Diseases of the Heart, and Great Vessels, Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blnachard, page 188
Streaker , the housemaid , too , had an attribute of a most discomfiting nature . I am unable to say whether she was of an unusually lymphatic temperament , or what else was the matter with her , but this young woman became a mere Distillery for the production of the largest and most transparent tears I ever met with .
1859 December 13, Charles Dickens, “The Mortals in the House”, in Charles Dickens, editor, The Haunted House. The Extra Christmas Number of All the Year Round […], volume II, London: […] C. Whiting, […], page 5
Who has not marked , where the full cheek should be ,Incipient lines of lank flaccidity ,Lymphatic pallor where the pink should glow ,And where the throb of transport , pulses low ?—
1898, Thomas Hardy, “Lines”, in Wessex Poems and Other Verses, London: Macmillan & Co., published 1919, page 224
Hari , the holy man , who was to be the pundit that day , was just as Mr Biswas remembered him , just as soft -spoken and lymphatic His felt hat sat softly on his head . He greeted Mr Biswas without rancour , without pleasure , without interest .
1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Vintage International, published 2001, Part One, Chapter 4
(obsolete) Madly enthusiastic ; frantic . quotations
Quotations A Negro stood by all the while trembling , now and then lifting up his hands and eyes , muttering his black Art to some hobgoblin , and (when we least suspected it) skips out , and in a limphatic rapture drew a long knife which he brandisht about his head 7 or 8 times , and after so many spells put it up againe ; he then kisses the humid earth 3 times and rises merrily : upon a sudden , the skie cleared and no more noise affrighted us .
1638, Thomas Herbert, Some Yeares Travels into Africa and Asia the Great, Book I, p. 28