Stoical
/ˈstoʊ.ɪk.əl/ adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Enduring pain and hardship without showing feeling or complaint.
""More and more, the shrewdest thinkers and artists are precocious archeologists of ... ruins-in-the-making, indignant or stoical diagnosticians of defeat, enigmatic choreographers of the complex spiritual movements useful for individual survival in an era or permanent apocalypse.""
Adjective
- 1 seeming unaffected by pleasure or pain; impassive wordnet
Example
More examples"Aurelius throughout his life adhered to the Stoical philosophy."
Etymology
From Middle English stoicalle, from Latin stōicus + -al. By surface analysis, stoic + -al.