Stolid

3 definitions found

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

  Stolid \Stol"id\, a. [L. stolidus.]
     Hopelessly insensible or stupid; not easily aroused or
     excited; dull; impassive; foolish.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  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}]

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

  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     unstirring, untroubled, waning, withdrawn, wooden