Stoical

//ˈstoʊ.ɪk.əl// adj

adj ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 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. 1
    seeming unaffected by pleasure or pain; impassive wordnet

Synonyms

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stoicunemotionalapatheticcalmcooldisciplined

Example

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"Aurelius throughout his life adhered to the Stoical philosophy."

Etymology

From Middle English stoicalle, from Latin stōicus + -al. By surface analysis, stoic + -al.

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