stolid (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the word *stolid*:
ADJECTIVE	all	stolid, impassive	having or revealing little emotion or sensibility

stolid > pronunciation
Sounds	staa'lahd
Rhymes	abbreviated ... wounded: 365 rhymes with ahd...

English > *stolid*: 1 sense > adjective 1
Meaning	Having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; not easily aroused or excited.
Examples	"a silent stolid creature who took it all as a matter of course"-Virginia Woolf "her face showed nothing but stolid indifference"
Synonym	impassive
Broader	unemotional	unsusceptible to or destitute of or showing no emotion
Spanish	estólido, flemático, frío, impasible, imperturbable, inalterable
Catalan	fred, impertorbable, inalterable
Nouns	stolidity, stolidness	an indifference to pleasure or pain
Nouns	stolidity	apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions
Adverbs	stolidly	in a stolid manner

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