English Explanatory Dictionary

stolid

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Having or revealing little emotion or sensibility.
  2. Dully or heavily stupid.

Pronunciation

/ˈstɒl.ɪd/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-stolid.wav /ˈstɑːl.ɪd/

Word forms

stolid stolider stolidest

Etymology

Etymology tree Latin stolidusder. Middle French stolideder. English stolid From Middle French stolide, from Latin stolidus (“foolish, obtuse, slow”).

Synonyms

cold-hearted unfeeling phlegmatic alexithymic apathistical clinical dull cold-blooded dead inside dispassionate emotionless immovable impassible impassive insensible nonemotional nonfeeling nonpassionate nonsentimental stolid unemotional unmovable unpassionate unsentimental slow-witted thickheaded addlebrained addlepated airheaded bee-brained beef-witted beefheaded beetle-headed birdbrained blockheaded Boeotian boneheaded boofheaded braindead brainless bubbleheaded buffle-headed bullet-headed cerebrally challenged childish chowderheaded chuckleheaded crackbrained cretinous daft dense dented dim-bulb dim-headed dim-witted dim doltish dopey dozy drowsy

Related words

stolidly stolidness stolidity stultify

Derived words

unstolid
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