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Definition of Stolid
1. Adjective. Having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; not easily aroused or excited. "Her face showed nothing but stolid indifference"
Similar to: Unemotional
Derivative terms: Impassiveness, Impassivity, Stolidity, Stolidity, Stolidness
Definition of Stolid
1. a. Hopelessly insensible or stupid; not easily aroused or excited; dull; impassive; foolish.
Definition of Stolid
1. Adjective. Having or revealing little emotion or sensibility. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Stolid
1. showing little or no emotion [adj -IDER, -IDEST] : STOLIDLY [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stolid
Literary usage of Stolid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons, Fifteen Months a Guest of by John McElroy (1879)
"Previous to coming to America he had been for many years an English soldier, and
I accepted him as a type of that stolid, doggedly brave class, ..."
2. Mind and Hand: Manual Training, the Chief Factor in Education by Charles Henry Ham (1900)
"The Past tyrannizes over the Present by Interposing the stolid Resistance of Habit.
... ALL reforms must encounter the stolid resistance of habit. ..."
3. Mind and Hand: Manual Training, the Chief Factor in Education by Charles Henry Ham (1900)
"The Past tyrannizes over the Present by Interposing the stolid Resistance of Habit.
... ALL reforms must encounter the stolid resistance of habit. ..."
4. Ten Years in Washington: Life and Scenes in the National Capital, as a Woman by Mary Clemmer (1874)
"... Half-frozen Beauties—" They did not Make a Pretty Picture "—Why and Wherefore ?—A
Protest againt " Shams "—A stolid Tanner who Fought his Way. ..."
5. Ten Years in Washington: Or, Inside Life and Scenes in Our National Capital by Mary Clemmer (1882)
"A Protest againt " Shams "—A stolid Tanner who Fought his Way. UNTOLD time, and
trouble, and sixty thousand dollars were expended on the last inauguration ..."
6. Through Cities and Prairie Lands: Sketches of an American Tour by Duffus Hardy (1881)
"The stolid Indian—Mount Royal—Sir Hugh Allan's Home—The Banks—The Windsor Hotel.
were roused at a most unearthly hour in the morning, the bells were ringing ..."
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