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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; not easily aroused or excited;
- Example: "her impassive remoteness"
- Example: "he remained impassive, showing neither interest in nor concern for our plight"- Nordhoff & Hall;
- Example: "a silent stolid creature who took it all as a matter of course"-Virginia Woolf
- Example: "her face showed nothing but stolid indifference"
[syn: impassive, stolid]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Stolid \Stol"id\, a. [L. stolidus.]
   Hopelessly insensible or stupid; not easily aroused or
   excited; dull; impassive; foolish.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

stolid
    adj 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" [syn: impassive, stolid]