Meaning

2 senses
  1. Having or revealing little emotion or sensibility.

    schwerfällig, ungerührt, stoisch

    невозмутимыйnevozmutimyj, бесстра́стныйbesstrástnyj, тупо́йtupój

    флегматичнийflehmatyčnyj, беземоційнийbezemocijnyj, тупийtupyj

    having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; not easily aroused or excited

  2. Dully or heavily stupid.

Examples

1 sentences
  1. His outlook on life, as with his habits were so stolid and plebeian.

    CC BY · Tatoeba · dec · C2Open on TatoebaReport a problem

Translations

7 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
having or revealing little emotion or sensibility:
Русский
By meaning 1
having or revealing little emotion or sensibility:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
having or revealing little emotion or sensibility:

Origin

From Middle French stolide, from Latin stolidus (“foolish, obtuse, slow”).

From Middle French stolide, from Latin stolidus (“foolish, obtuse, slow”).

Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

Forms

stolider, stolidest
Comparativestolider Lesson
Superlativestolidest Lesson

irregular

Synonyms

152 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; not easily aroused or excited:impassive

Word family

5 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
stolid — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto