Stolid

Definition: Stolid

Stolid

Adjective

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".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "stolid" was first used: 1600. (references)

Etymology: Stolid \Stol"id\, adjective. [Latin expression stolidus.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonym: Stolid

Dullness

Stupid, slow, flat, insipid, vapid, humdrum, monotonous; melancholic; stolid; plodding.

Imbecility Folly

Shallow, borne, weak, wanting, soft, sappy, spoony; dull, dull as a beetle; stupid, heavy, insulse, obtuse, blunt, stolid, doltish; asinine; inapt; prosaic; hebetudinous.

Smallness

Dull, petty, shallow, stolid, ungifted, unintelligent.

Crosswords: Stolid

Expression using "stolid": phlegmatic phlegmatical stolid. Additional references.

Albanian

i ftohtë (algid, aloof, bleak, bloodless, brumous, chilly, cold, cold-livered, cool, cool blooded, crimpy, distant, frigid, frosty, frozen, gelid, glacial, insensitive, offish, Parky, sexless, stilted, stony, winterly, wintry), flegmatik (phlegmatic). (various references)

Arabic 

‏متبلد الحس (dull, dullish), ‏عديم الإحساس (impenetrable, thick-skinned), ‏بارد الطبع. (various references)

Bulgarian 

упорит (asinine, constant, defiant, die hard, dogged, flinty, gritty, hard bitten, hard boiled, hard core, hard set, hardheaded, hard-shell, importunate, incompliant, indomitable, insistent, intractable, inveterate, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, opinionated, patient, persevering, persistent, pertinacious, piggish, purposeful, refractory, self willed, self-opinionated, set, spiky, stout, stouthearted, strenuous, sturdy, tenacious, tough, unpliant, unremitting, unwearing, wilful, wrongheaded), флегматичен (lymphatic, phlegmatic), безстрастен (apathetic, apathetical, cold-livered, dispassionate, impassible, impassive, passionless, torpid), безчувствен (harsh, indurate, insensate, insensible, insensitive, insentient, insusceptible, senseless, stockish, torpid, unfeeling). (various references)

Czech

tupý (blunt, brutish, cloddish, dense, dozy, dull, empty headed, indocile, mindful, obtuse, pointless, stupid, thickheaded, torpid, vacant, vacuous), nejasný (abstruse, ambiguous, dim, dimmish, equivocal, faint, fuzzy, hazy, indeterminate, indistinct, misty, obscure, tenuous, unclear, vague, woolly), flegmatický (impassive, imperturbable, phlegmatic, unflappable, unruffled). (various references)

Farsi 

فاقداحساس , بی حس (Dead, Torpid, Vapid), بی حال (Inactive, Lackadaisical, Languid, Slothful), بی عاطفه (Callous, Impassive, Inhuman, Insensate, Insensitive, Obdurate, Unfeeling, Unkind), بلغمی (Pituitary). (various references)

French

impassible, flegmatique. (various references)

German

stur (bloody minded, cussed, dogged, dour, mulish, mulishly, obdurate, obstinate, obstinately, pig-headed, rigid, stolidly, stubborn, uncooperative, wilful, wilily, willfully). (various references)

Greek 

απαθήσ (apathetic, cool, dispassionate, impassible, impassive, passionless, unresponsive), ατάραχοσ (composed, cool, imperturbable, sedate, self possessed, unabashed, unperturbed, unruffled). (various references)

Hebrew 

חסר ר�'ישות, � טול �"בע�". (various references)

Hungarian

közönyös (apathetic, apathetical, cold, detached, languid, negligent, nonchalant, phlegmatic, pococurante, unconcerned, uninterested), egykedvű (impassive, imperturbable, lackadaisical, languid). (various references)

Italian

stolido, imperturbabile (imperturbable, passionless, unflappable), flemmatico (phlegmatic). (various references)

Pig Latin

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Portuguese

obstinado (ambivalent, balky, contumacious, die-hard, dogged, dour, hard-mouthed, headstrong, mulish, non-ductile, obdurate, obstinate, peevish, pertinacious, recalcitrant, refractory, self-willed, stiff-necked, stubborn, tenacious, unredeemed, unyielding, wilful, willful, wrong-headed), imperturbável (even-minded, unabashed, unflappable, unruffled, unshakeable, unstirred), impassível (coldlivered, cool, even, insensitive, irresponsive, passionless, phlegmatic, plodder, unabashed, unconcerned, unmoved, unperturbed, unstirred), fleumático (phlegmatic, plodder), estólido. (various references)

Romanian

nepãsãtor (airily, apathetic, apathetical, apathetically, careless, casual, devil may care, easy going, happy go lucky, heedless, impassible, impassive, inconsiderate, incurious, indifferent, indolent, insensible, insouciant, jaunty, lackadaisical, listless, neglectful, negligent, nonchalant, reckless, regardless, remiss, slack, slow, thoughtless, unmoved), indiferent (all one, all the same, anywhere, apathetic, apathetical, careless, chill, cool, dull, impassive, indifferent, indifferently, inhuman, insensible, insensitive, lackadaisical, languid, listless, nonchalant, numb, perfunctory, phlegmatic, pococurante, reckless, remiss, slack, slow, sluggish, unconcerned, unimportant, unmoved), greu (annoying, arduous, awkward, burden, burdensome, busy, clumsy, dangerously, difficult, difficulty, fatiguing, gravely, grievous, hard, hardly, heavily, heavy, inconvenient, labored, laborious, laboured, leaden, lot, massive, massy, near, onerous, oppressive, painful, parlous, precarious, punitive, reluctantly, scarcely, seriously, severe, solid, stiff, stodgy, strenuous, stuffy, ticklish, toilful, tough, troublesome, trying, uneasy, uphill, wearisome, weary, weight, weighty), greoi (artless, bearish, dull, elephantine, gawky, heavy, hulking, lubberly, lumpish, massy, ponderous, slow, stodgy, ungainly, ungraceful, unwieldy, weighty), încãpãţânat (awkward, contumacious, die hard, dogged, dour, hard, headstrong, inveterate, mule, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, opinionated, opinioned, pertinacious, perverse, pig-headed, refractory, royalist, self willed, stubborn, tough, unwilling, wilful). (various references)

Russian 

тупой (blockish, blunt, dense, dim witted, dim-witted, doltish, dug, dull, fat-witted, goofy, gormless, heavy, logy, muddle-headed, obtuse, pig-headed, po-faced, pointless, puddingy, purblind, slow witted, slow-witted, stupid, thick, timberheaded, timber-headed, wooden-headed), вялый (apathetic, apathetical, dopey, dopy, drowsy, exanimate, flabby, flaccid, flat, indolent, inert, insipid, lackadaisical, languid, languorous, lethargic, listless, remiss, saggy, sapless, slack, sluggish, spiritless, torpid). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

tup (blank, blunt, cloddish, dull, hebetate, obtuse), neosetljiv (cold-livered, impassible, impassive, imperceptible, insensate, insensible, insensitive, insusceptible, senseless, steel, stony, tearless, unfeeling, unsusceptible). (various references)

Spanish

terco (contrary, cussed, dogged, dour, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, opinionated, pigheaded, self-opinionated, stiff necked, stout, stubborn, tough), impasible a (impervious, nonchalant), flemático (matter of fact, phlegmatic, phlegmatical, slow, sluggish). (various references)

Swedish

trög (blockish, dull, flat, inactive, inert, languid, languorous, lifeless, lumpish, obtuse, plodding, purblind, slow, slowcoach, sluggish, soggy, stick in the mud, tardy, unapt). (various references)

Turkish

vurdumduymaz (impassive, impervious, insusceptible, pachydermatous, thickskinned), duygusuz (apathetic, apathetical, as cold as charity, bloodless, blunt, callous, coldhearted, conscience-proof, devoid of feelings, dull, frigid, hard-hearted, impassible, insensate, insensitive, marble, matter of fact, numb, obtuse, phlegmatic, phlegmatical, senseless, soulless, steel, stony, unemotional, unfeeling, unmoved), duyarsız (deaf, hard-hearted, immune, insensible, insensitive, insentient, insusceptible, senseless, thick skin), ağır kanlı (indolent, phlegmatic, phlegmatical, sluggish). (various references)

Ukrainian

флегматичний (cloddish, lymphatic, phlegmatic). (various references)

Vietnamese 

thản nhiên (cold-blooded, pococurante, unappalled, unmelted, unmoved), phớt lạnh lì xì. (various references)

stolidus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "stolid": stolider, stolidest, stolidities, stolidity, stolidly. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Stolid" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Astolat, Estelit, solida, solidi, solido, soliod, stalic, stalid, stoid, stoil, stoiled, Stoilov, stold, stoli, stolic, stolidy, stolin, Stolli, Stolow, stoly, stooled, stpolid, Svolik. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: diols, doits, dolts, idols, lidos, odist, sloid, soldi, solid, toils.

-2 letters: diol, dits, doit, dols, dolt, dost, dots, idol, lido, lids, list, lits, lost, loti, lots, oils, olds, sild, silo, silt, slid, slit, slot, soil, sold, soli, tils, tods, toil, told.

-3 letters: dis, dit, dol, dos, dot, ids, its, lid, lis, lit, lot.

+1 letter: diglots, doltish, styloid, toluids.

+2 letters: deltoids, diastole, dicotyls, dilators, dilutors, diplonts, godliest, isolated, melodist, modelist, moldiest, pistoled, sodalist, sodalite, sodality, solidest, solidity, solitude, stodgily, stolider, stolidly, tabloids, tolidins, toluides.

+3 letters: bloodiest, cloddiest, cloudiest, custodial, delations, deletions, demivolts, diabolist, dialogist, diastoles, diastolic, dilations, dilutions, diplomats, dishcloth, dishclout, dishtowel, dislocate, dissolute, dolerites, dolomites, doltishly, dovetails, estradiol, glottides, goldsmith, goodliest, holytides, idioblast, idiolects, idolaters, idolators, insolated, lepidotes, lordliest, loudliest, lustihood, melodists, modelists, mouldiest, outbuilds, outfields, outsailed, outsmiled, outyields, pistolled, sodalists, sodalites, solicited, solitudes, spoliated, steroidal, stolidest, stolidity, swordtail, tediously, tolidines, toluidins, topsoiled, totalised, triploids, utilidors, withholds.