Stolid
adj ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 Having or revealing little emotion or sensibility.
"He went slowly to his tent and stretched himself on a blanket by the side of the snoring tall soldier. In the darkness he saw visions of a thousand-tongued fear that would babble at his back and cause him to flee, while others were going coolly about their country's business. He admitted that he would not be able to cope with this monster. He felt that every nerve in his body would be an ear to hear the voices, while other men would remain stolid and deaf."
- 2 Dully or heavily stupid.
"Light laughs the breeze / In her Castle above them — / Babbles the Bee in a stolid Ear, / Pipe the Sweet Birds in ignorant cadence — / Ah, what sagacity perished here!"
- 1 having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; not easily aroused or excited wordnet
Example
More examples"She was at a High School, at the inarticulate stage last time he was over, a round-eyed, pale-faced girl, with nothing of her mother in her, a silent stolid creature, who took it all as a matter of course, let her mother make a fuss of her, and then said "May I go now?""
Etymology
From Middle French stolide, from Latin stolidus (“foolish, obtuse, slow”).
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