"stolid" meaning in English

See stolid in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /ˈstɒl.ɪd/ [UK], /ˈstɑːl.ɪd/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-stolid.wav Forms: stolider [comparative], stolidest [superlative]
Rhymes: (UK) -ɒlɪd, (US) -ɑːlɪd Etymology: From Middle French stolide, from Latin stolidus (“foolish, obtuse, slow”). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*stel-}}, {{der|en|frm|stolide}} Middle French stolide, {{der|en|la|stolidus||foolish, obtuse, slow}} Latin stolidus (“foolish, obtuse, slow”) Head templates: {{en-adj|er}} stolid (comparative stolider, superlative stolidest)
  1. Having or revealing little emotion or sensibility. Categories (topical): Personality Synonyms: cold-hearted, unfeeling, alexithymic Translations (having or revealing little emotion or sensibility): безстрастен (bezstrasten) (Bulgarian), отпуснат (otpusnat) (Bulgarian), netečný (Czech), uitdrukkingsloos (Dutch), flegma (Esperanto), ilmeetön (Finnish), juro (Finnish), impassible (French), schwerfällig (German), ungerührt (German), stoisch (German), phlegmatisch (German), stur (German), עצור (atzúr) (Hebrew), stolido (Italian), рамнодушен (ramnodušen) [masculine] (Macedonian), нечувствителен (nečuvstvitelen) [masculine] (Macedonian), 面无表情 (miànwúbiǎoqíng) (Mandarin), estólido (Portuguese), невозмутимый (nevozmutimyj) (Russian), бесстра́стный (besstrástnyj) (Russian), тупо́й (tupój) (Russian), dùr (Scottish Gaelic), равнодушно (Serbo-Croatian), estólido (Spanish), флегматичний (flehmatyčnyj) [masculine] (Ukrainian), беземоційний (bezemocijnyj) [masculine] (Ukrainian), тупий (tupyj) [masculine] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-stolid-en-adj-FJfZdgOs Disambiguation of Personality: 98 2 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Czech translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Esperanto translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Hebrew translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Macedonian translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Scottish Gaelic translations, Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Ukrainian translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 50 50 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 65 35 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 49 51 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 47 53 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 58 42 Disambiguation of Terms with Czech translations: 60 40 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 53 47 Disambiguation of Terms with Esperanto translations: 51 49 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 58 42 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 53 47 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 55 45 Disambiguation of Terms with Hebrew translations: 53 47 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 51 49 Disambiguation of Terms with Macedonian translations: 59 41 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 52 48 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 58 42 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 55 45 Disambiguation of Terms with Scottish Gaelic translations: 56 44 Disambiguation of Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations: 58 42 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 51 49 Disambiguation of Terms with Ukrainian translations: 55 45 Disambiguation of 'having or revealing little emotion or sensibility': 100 0
  2. Dully or heavily stupid.
    Sense id: en-stolid-en-adj-z8EZC9KE Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Esperanto translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Hebrew translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Ukrainian translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 50 50 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 49 51 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 47 53 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 53 47 Disambiguation of Terms with Esperanto translations: 51 49 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 53 47 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 55 45 Disambiguation of Terms with Hebrew translations: 53 47 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 51 49 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 52 48 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 55 45 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 51 49 Disambiguation of Terms with Ukrainian translations: 55 45
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: stolidly [adverb], stolidness [noun], stolidity [noun], stultify

Inflected forms

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      "name": "root"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "frm",
        "3": "stolide"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle French stolide",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "stolidus",
        "4": "",
        "5": "foolish, obtuse, slow"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin stolidus (“foolish, obtuse, slow”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle French stolide, from Latin stolidus (“foolish, obtuse, slow”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "stolider",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stolidest",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "er"
      },
      "expansion": "stolid (comparative stolider, superlative stolidest)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "related": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "adverb"
      ],
      "word": "stolidly"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "noun"
      ],
      "word": "stolidness"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "noun"
      ],
      "word": "stolidity"
    },
    {
      "word": "stultify"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1895 October, Stephen Crane, chapter II, in The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC, pages 30–31:",
          "text": "He went slowly to his tent and stretched himself on a blanket by the side of the snoring tall soldier. In the darkness he saw visions of a thousand-tongued fear that would babble at his back and cause him to flee, while others were going coolly about their country's business. He admitted that he would not be able to cope with this monster. He felt that every nerve in his body would be an ear to hear the voices, while other men would remain stolid and deaf.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1950, Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451:",
          "text": "With his symbolic helmet numbered 451 on his stolid head, and his eyes all orange flame with the thought of what came next, he flicked the igniter and the house jumped up in a gorging fire that burned the evening sky red and yellow and black.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Having or revealing little emotion or sensibility."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "emotion",
          "emotion"
        ],
        [
          "sensibility",
          "sensibility"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "cold-hearted"
        },
        {
          "word": "unfeeling"
        },
        {
          "word": "alexithymic"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "a. 1887 (date written), Emily Dickinson, “[Book IV.—Time and Eternity] Safe in Their Alabaster Chambers”, in Mabel Loomis Todd and T[homas] W[entworth] Higginson, editors, Poems, First Series, Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, published 1890, →OCLC, page 113:",
          "text": "Light laughs the breeze / In her Castle above them — / Babbles the Bee in a stolid Ear, / Pipe the Sweet Birds in ignorant cadence — / Ah, what sagacity perished here!",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1895 May 7, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, chapter V, in The Time Machine: An Invention, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, →OCLC:",
          "text": "They (Eloi) all failed to understand my gestures; some were simply stolid, some thought it was a jest and laughed at me.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022, Gary Gerstle, chapter 6, in The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order […] , New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, Part II. The Neoliberal Order, 1970–2020:",
          "text": "Al Gore, Jr., the Democratic candidate, was Clinton's stolid heir; […]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Dully or heavily stupid."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Dully",
          "dully#English"
        ],
        [
          "heavily",
          "heavy"
        ],
        [
          "stupid",
          "stupid"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈstɒl.ɪd/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
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    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈstɑːl.ɪd/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "(UK) -ɒlɪd"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "(US) -ɑːlɪd"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "bezstrasten",
      "sense": "having or revealing little emotion or sensibility",
      "word": "безстрастен"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "otpusnat",
      "sense": "having or revealing little emotion or sensibility",
      "word": "отпуснат"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "having or revealing little emotion or sensibility",
      "word": "netečný"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "having or revealing little emotion or sensibility",
      "word": "uitdrukkingsloos"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "having or revealing little emotion or sensibility",
      "word": "flegma"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "having or revealing little emotion or sensibility",
      "word": "ilmeetön"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "having or revealing little emotion or sensibility",
      "word": "juro"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "having or revealing little emotion or sensibility",
      "word": "impassible"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "having or revealing little emotion or sensibility",
      "word": "schwerfällig"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "having or revealing little emotion or sensibility",
      "word": "ungerührt"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "having or revealing little emotion or sensibility",
      "word": "stoisch"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "having or revealing little emotion or sensibility",
      "word": "phlegmatisch"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "having or revealing little emotion or sensibility",
      "word": "stur"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "atzúr",
      "sense": "having or revealing little emotion or sensibility",
      "word": "עצור"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "having or revealing little emotion or sensibility",
      "word": "stolido"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "ramnodušen",
      "sense": "having or revealing little emotion or sensibility",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "рамнодушен"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "nečuvstvitelen",
      "sense": "having or revealing little emotion or sensibility",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "нечувствителен"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Mandarin",
      "roman": "miànwúbiǎoqíng",
      "sense": "having or revealing little emotion or sensibility",
      "word": "面无表情"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "having or revealing little emotion or sensibility",
      "word": "estólido"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "nevozmutimyj",
      "sense": "having or revealing little emotion or sensibility",
      "word": "невозмутимый"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "besstrástnyj",
      "sense": "having or revealing little emotion or sensibility",
      "word": "бесстра́стный"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "tupój",
      "sense": "having or revealing little emotion or sensibility",
      "word": "тупо́й"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "having or revealing little emotion or sensibility",
      "word": "dùr"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "having or revealing little emotion or sensibility",
      "word": "равнодушно"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "having or revealing little emotion or sensibility",
      "word": "estólido"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "flehmatyčnyj",
      "sense": "having or revealing little emotion or sensibility",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "флегматичний"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "bezemocijnyj",
      "sense": "having or revealing little emotion or sensibility",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "беземоційний"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "tupyj",
      "sense": "having or revealing little emotion or sensibility",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "тупий"
    }
  ],
  "word": "stolid"
}

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