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Definition: Stoic |
StoicAdjective1. Seeming unaffected by pleasure or pain; impassive; "stoic courage"; "stoic patience"; "a stoical sufferer". 2. Pertaining to Stoicism or its followers. Noun1. A member of the ancient Greek school of philosophy founded by Zeno; "a Stoic achieves happiness by submission to destiny". 2. Someone who is seemingly indifferent to emotions. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "stoic" was first used: sometime around 1384. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | STOIC STring Oriented Interactive Compiler. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
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Synonyms: StoicSynonyms: stoical (adj), unemotional person (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: emotional person (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Stoic |
| English words defined with "stoic": Antoninus, Aurelius ♦ Cleanthes ♦ Epictetain ♦ Marcus Annius Verus, Marcus Aurelius, Marcus Aurelius Antoninus ♦ stoically ♦ Zeno, Zeno of Citium. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "stoic": Callous ♦ Philosophers ♦ Stoics, STring Oriented Interactive Compiler. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Stoic" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Romanian (stoic, stoical, stoically). |
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Screenplays | He stands in silence, stoic, godlike, the mysterious blue avenger who has become legend to the simple folk of this bus station. (The Tick; writing credit: Larry Charles; Lon Diamond) | |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | CALLOUS, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another. When Zeno was told that one of his enemies was no more he was observed to be deeply moved. "What!" said one of his disciples, "you weep at the death of an enemy?" "Ah, 'tis true," replied the great Stoic; "but you should see me smile at the death of a friend." |
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| "Stoic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 83.33% of the time. "Stoic" is used about 30 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 83.33% | 25 | 69,787 |
| Noun (singular) | 16.67% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 30 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "stoic": stoic stoical. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
stoic | 53 |
stoic philosophy | 12 |
frame stoic | 9 |
philosopher stoic | 3 |
letter from a stoic | 3 |
define stoic | 3 |
ethics stoic | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "stoic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | stoik (stoical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | رواقي مذهب, رواقي (stoical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | стоически (stoical), стоик. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | stoik, stoický (stoical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | stoïsch (stoical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | stoikulo, stoika (stoical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | پیروفلسفه رواقیون , رواقی . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | stoalainen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | stoïque (stoical), stoïcien. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | stoisch (phlegmatic, stoical, stoicly), stoiker (stoics). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | στωικόσ φιλόσοφοσ, στωικόσ (stoical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | כובש יצריו, סטואיקן (stoical), סטואי (stoical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | sztoikus (stoical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | stoico (stoical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 禁欲主義者 (ascetic), ストークスの法則 (heater, stock, stock car, stock car race, stock control, stockbroker, stocker, Stockholm, stockings, Stoicism, Stokes' law, stole, stone, stone circle, stone crab, stone wash, store, store brand, store concept, storm, story, story teller, storyboard, stove, stove league). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | き"よくしゅぎしゃ (ascetic), ストイック . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | stoagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oicstay estóico (stoical). (various references) stoic (stoical, stoically). (various references) стоик. (various references) stoik, stoički (stoical). (various references) estoico (stoical). (various references) stoisk (stoical). (various references) stoacı (stoical), zenon'un okulundan olan (stoical), zenon'un okulundan felsefeci, metin (copy, firm, foursquare, immovable, resolute, solid, stoical, text, unshakable, unshaken), acılara katlanan kişi, acılara katlanan (stoical). (various references) стоїчний (stoical), стоїк. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | stoikos. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | stoici. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "stoic": stoical, stoically, stoichiometric, stoichiometrically, stoichiometries, stoichiometry, stoicism, stoicisms, stoics. (additional references) | |
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"Stoic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: atoic, Estoi, Estorick, sdio, sgoir, soci, soec, sofic, sotopic, stalic, stic, stik, stio, stion, stoa, stoai, stoc, stocc, stoch, stoi, stoich, stoicy, stoid, stoig, stoik, stoil, stoin, stoit, stolic, stomic, stooc, storc, stotic, stouch, stouf, stoush, stoys, stui, tseuc, tsiwick, tsui. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "stoic" (pronounced stō"ik) |
| 3 | -ō" i k | dichroic, gabbroic, heroic. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-i-o-s-t" | |
-1 letter: cist, cost, cots, otic, scot, tics. | |
-2 letters: cis, cos, cot, its, sic, sit, sot, tic, tis. | |
-3 letters: is, it, os, si, so, ti, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-i-o-s-t" | |
+1 letter: cestoi, coatis, coitus, dicots, optics, picots, scotia, sitcom, stoics, tocsin, tonics, topics, toxics. | |
+2 letters: actions, atomics, atonics, biotics, cations, cestoid, chitons, cistron, citolas, citoles, citrons, citrous, coedits, coesite, coexist, cogitos, colitis, coltish, comfits, commits, confits, consist, cooties, copyist, cortins, cosiest, cosmist, costing, costive, cowiest, coxitis, coziest, cystoid, dacoits, erotics, exotics, gnostic, gothics, isotach, lictors, miotics, myotics, notices, octrois, oculist, osmatic, osmotic, ostrich, photics, poetics, psoatic, scotias, scottie, section, sickout, sitcoms, society, solicit, somatic, somitic, soritic, stoical, strobic, suction, tictocs, tocsins, tricots, tropics, victors. | |
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