stolid
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- stolidity noun
- stolidly adverb
- stolidness noun
Etymology
Origin of stolid
First recorded in 1595–1605; from the Latin stolidus “inert, dull, stupid”
Example Sentences
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Rich, 54, a decidedly stolid type who composes their music and plays guitar, recalled, “Hair metal was big.”
From New York Times
In their chickens, though — with close-set beady eyes and faces far more expressive than a real chicken’s stolid look could ever be — the studio located comic gold.
From New York Times
They have sometimes been, by turns, stolid, corrupt and ineffectual, but virtually any semblance of organization is better than nothing, because non-union workers don’t strike.
From Los Angeles Times
The final season is as much Allam’s as it is Evans’s, with the stolid, old-school Thursday struggling in his roles as cop, husband, father and, to Morse, surrogate dad.
From New York Times
Although many disliked the building’s brooding, stolid architecture, the Breuer came to be considered the ideal space in which to show 20th and 21st century art and sculpture.
From New York Times
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