stolid
sto·lid
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”
Origin
From Middle French stolide, from Latin stolidus (“foolish, obtuse, slow”).
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