Phlegmy
Pronunciation: /flɛɡmaɪ/
Phlegmy (adj)
- Having thick mucus in the throat or nose, making your voice sound heavy and your breathing feel blocked.
- Slow to react and not showing much emotion, often sounding calm in a boring way.
- Describing a person thought to have a body balance linked with calmness and heaviness in older medical ideas.
Phlegmy (adjective)
Examples
- His phlegmy voice made every sentence sound heavy.
- The singer’s phlegmy voice was hard to understand.