Link Centre Dictionary

stolid

sto·lid

UK/ˈstɒl.ɪd/ US/ˈstɑːl.ɪd/ fairly common

adjective

1.

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”
Synonyms

Origin

From Middle French stolide, from Latin stolidus (“foolish, obtuse, slow”).

Related words

WordNet 2.1 (Princeton University). Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. WordNet 2.1 Copyright Princeton University. All rights reserved. Wiktionary content is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike Licence.