Stoic

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Stoic \Sto"ic\, Stoical \Sto"ic*al\, a. [L. stoicus, Gr. ?: cf.
     F. sto["i]que. See {Stoic}, n.]
     1. Of or pertaining to the Stoics; resembling the Stoics or
        their doctrines.
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     2. Not affected by passion; manifesting indifference to
        pleasure or pain; especially, bearing pain, suffering, or
        bad fortune without complaint. -- {Sto"ic*al*ly}, adv. --
        {Sto"ic*al*ness}, n.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Stoic \Sto"ic\, n. [L. stoicus, Gr. ?, fr. ?, adj., literally,
     of or pertaining to a colonnade, from ? a roofed colonnade, a
     porch, especially, a porch in Athens where Zeno and his
     successors taught.]
     1. A disciple of the philosopher Zeno; one of a Greek sect
        which held that men should be free from passion, unmoved
        by joy or grief, and should submit without complaint to
        unavoidable necessity, by which all things are governed.
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     2. Hence, a person not easily excited; an apathetic person;
        one who is apparently or professedly indifferent to
        pleasure or pain.
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              A Stoic of the woods, a man without a tear.
                                                    --Campbell.
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     {School of Stoics}. See {The Porch}, under {Porch}.
        [1913 Webster] Stoic

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  stoic
       adj 1: seeming unaffected by pleasure or pain; impassive; "stoic
              courage"; "stoic patience"; "a stoical sufferer" [syn:
               {stoical}]
       2: pertaining to Stoicism or its followers
       n 1: a member of the ancient Greek school of philosophy founded
            by Zeno; "a Stoic achieves happiness by submission to
            destiny"
       2: someone who is seemingly indifferent to emotions [syn: {unemotional
          person}] [ant: {emotional person}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  115 Moby Thesaurus words for "stoic":
     Laodicean, Olympian, Spartan, accepting, aloof, apathetic,
     armed with patience, at rest, benumbed, blah, blase, bovine, calm,
     cloistered, comatose, cool, desensitized, detached, disciplined,
     disinterested, dispassionate, dull, dwindling, ebbing, endurant,
     enduring, even-tempered, even-tenored, forbearing, halcyon,
     heartless, hebetudinous, hopeless, hushed, impassive,
     imperturbable, in a stupor, indifferent, indulgent, inexcitable,
     inirritable, insouciant, isolated, languid, lenient, lethargic,
     listless, long-suffering, longanimous, man of iron, moldering,
     nonchalant, numb, numbed, pacific, passive, patient,
     patient as Job, peaceable, peaceful, persevering, philosophical,
     phlegmatic, placid, pluckless, quiescent, quiet, reposeful,
     reposing, resigned, restful, resting, secluded, self-controlled,
     sequestered, sequestrated, sheltered, slack, sluggish, smooth,
     soporific, spiritless, spunkless, steady, still, still as death,
     stillish, stilly, stolid, stupefied, subsiding, supine, tolerant,
     tolerating, tolerative, torpid, tranquil, unagitated, uncaring,
     unconcerned, understanding, undisturbable, undisturbed,
     unflappable, uninterested, unirritable, unmoved, unnervous,
     unpassionate, unperturbed, unruffled, unstirring, untroubled,
     waning, withdrawn
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  STOIC
       
          {STring Oriented Interactive Compiler}