phlegmatic vs uptight

phlegmatic

adj
  • Not easily excited to action or passion; calm; sluggish. 

  • Generating, causing, or full of phlegm. 

noun
  • One who has a phlegmatic disposition. 

uptight

adj
  • Emotionally repressed; nervous and tense. 

  • Excessively concerned with rules and order, always serious. 

  • Sexually repressed. 

  • Unfriendly and rude. 

noun
  • An uptight person. 

How often have the words phlegmatic and uptight occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )