stolid
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stolid
- /ˈstɒl.ɪd/ UK
- /ˈstɑːl.ɪd/ US
Rhymes with (UK) -ɒlɪd, (US) -ɑːlɪd
Where it comes from
From Middle French stolide, from Latin stolidus (“foolish, obtuse, slow”).
adjective stolider · stolidest
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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 wou
Similar: cold-hearted, unfeeling, phlegmatic, alexithymic, apathistical, clinical, dull, cold-blooded, dead inside, dispassionate, emotionless, immovable
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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!
Similar: slow-witted, thickheaded, addlebrained, addlepated, airheaded, bee-brained, beef-witted, soft, beefheaded, beetle-headed, birdbrained, blockheaded
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adj having or revealing little emotion or sensibility
| Español | estólido |
|---|---|
| 中文 | 面无表情 miànwúbiǎoqíng |
| Português | estólido |
| Français | impassible |
| Deutsch | schwerfällig, ungerührt, stoisch, phlegmatisch, stur, gefühllos |
| Italiano | stolido |
| Русский | невозмутимый nevozmutimyj, бесстра́стный besstrástnyj, тупо́й tupój |
| עברית | עצור atzúr |
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