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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; not easily aroused or excited;
- Example: "her impassive remoteness"
- Example: "he remained impassive, showing neither interest in nor concern for our plight"- Nordhoff & Hall;
- Example: "a silent stolid creature who took it all as a matter of course"-Virginia Woolf
- Example: "her face showed nothing but stolid indifference"
[syn: impassive, stolid]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Stolid \Stol"id\, a. [L. stolidus.] Hopelessly insensible or stupid; not easily aroused or excited; dull; impassive; foolish. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

stolid adj 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" [syn: impassive, stolid]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

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unoriginal, unpassionate, unperturbed, unpoetic, unromantic, unromanticized, unruffled, unstirring, untroubled, waning, withdrawn, wooden