stolid
- not easily stirred or moved mentally; unemotional; impassive.
Origin of stolid
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impassive, blunt, bovine, dense, dry, dull, dumb, heavy, inactive, indifferent, inert, lumpish, matter-of-fact, obtuse, passive, phlegmatic, slow, stoic, supine, unemotionalExamples from the Web for stolid
Contemporary Examples of stolid
The New York Times began its review with the words “stolid and humorless.”
‘From Up on Poppy Hill’: Goro Miyazaki, the Next Generation of Studio GhibliMelissa Leon
March 15, 2013
And when he did, he was not positioned in front of a stolid stage set.
Taylor was perfectly formed for the intuitive, opportunistic life of a rebel, but not for the stolid bureaucracy of government.
Stolid and somber, these are films made to be admired, not loved.
She is stolid and reliable, sartorially and in seemingly every other way, and that forms the essence of her appeal.
Historical Examples of stolid
A box of candy against a good cigar, they are a stolid married couple.
KMary Roberts Rinehart
But if stolid, Timmins had his fair share of a certain slow pugnacity.
Quaint CourtshipsVarious
How stolid they were and how matter of fact and how sensible.
DustMr. and Mrs. Haldeman-Julius
Hiram said not a word, but he sat looking at the other in stolid silence.
Howard Pyle's Book of PiratesHoward Pyle
Eccles faced him unwillingly, with a stolid front but shifty eyes.
The Black BagLouis Joseph Vance
stolid
- showing little or no emotion or interest
Word Origin for stolid
Word Origin and History for stolid
1560s (implied in stolidity), from Middle French stolide (16c.), from Latin stolidus "insensible, dull, brutish," properly "unmovable," related to stultus "foolish," from PIE root *stel- "to put, stand" (see stall (n.1)).