stolid
pronunciation
How to pronounce stolid in British English:
UK [ˈstɒlɪd]
How to pronounce stolid in American English:
US [ˈstɑlɪd]
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- Adjective:
- having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; not easily aroused or excited
Word Origin
- stolid (adj.)
- c. 1600, back-formation from stolidity, or else from Middle French stolide (16c.), from Latin stolidus "insensible, dull, slow, brutish, rude, stupid," properly "unmovable," related to stultus "foolish," from PIE root *stel- "to put, stand" (see stall (n.1)).
Antonym
Example
- 1. Dull and slow-moving and stolid ; like an ox.
- 2. The stolid giant was as nervous as a schoolboy .
- 3. He was a rather stolid , serious type .
- 4. The incredibly massive and stolid bureaucracy of the soviet system ( john kenneth galbraith )
- 5. It was on a sunday evening , when he was lying in the orchard listening to a balckbird and composing a love poem , that he head the gate swing to , and saw a girl coming running among the trees , with the red cheeked , stolid joe in swift pursuit .