Stolid \Stol"id\, a. [L. stolidus.]
Hopelessly insensible or stupid; not easily aroused or
excited; dull; impassive; foolish.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
stolid
adj : having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; not
easily aroused or excited; "her impassive remoteness";
"he remained impassive, showing neither interest in nor
concern for our plight"- Nordhoff & Hall; "a silent
stolid creature who took it all as a matter of
course"-Virginia Woolf; "her face showed nothing but
stolid indifference" [syn: impassive]
WordNet (r) 2.0
116 Moby Thesaurus words for "stolid":
aloof, apathetic, arid, at rest, barren, blunt, bored, bovine,
calm, careless, cloistered, cool, dense, detached, disinterested,
dispassionate, distant, doltish, dry, dull, dumb, dwindling,
earthbound, ebbing, even-tempered, even-tenored, fact, halcyon,
heedless, hushed, impassive, imperturbable, inactive, incurious,
indifferent, inert, inexcitable, infecund, infertile, inirritable,
insouciant, isolated, lethargic, listless, literal, lumpish,
mindless, moldering, mundane, obtuse, pacific, passive, patient,
peaceable, peaceful, phlegmatic, placid, prosaic, prosing, prosy,
quiescent, quiet, regardless, reposeful, reposing, restful,
resting, secluded, sequestered, sequestrated, sheltered, slow,
smooth, staid, steady, still, still as death, stillish, stilly,
stoic, stuffy, stupid, subsiding, supine, thick, tranquil,
unagitated, unconcerned, undisturbable, undisturbed, unemotional,
unfanciful, unflappable, unideal, unimaginative, uninquiring,
uninspired, uninterested, uninventive, uninvolved, unirritable,
unmindful, unmoved, unnervous, unoriginal, unpassionate,
unperturbed, unpoetic, unromantic, unromanticized, unruffled,
unstirring, untroubled, waning, withdrawn, wooden
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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