| 单词 | stolid |
| 释义 | stolid (once / 1317 pages) adj A stolid person can’t be moved to smile or show much sign of life, in much the same way as something solid, like a giant boulder, is immovable. Both are expressionless. It's hard to get excited about the word stolid. It refers to emotionless people or things, and it even sounds pretty dull. Your face may be stolid, as you plod through the unemotional history of the word born in the 17th century of little more than Latin words for "foolish." In some definitions, stolid does have more complimentary synonyms, such as "dependable" or "calm," but these can be overshadowed by other words for stolid — "empty," "blank," and "vacant," to name a few. WORD FAMILYstolid: stolidest, stolidity, stolidly, stolidness+/stolidity: stolidities USAGE EXAMPLESOhio was once the home of the Old Guard, Main Street, county Chamber of Commerce Republican Party: stolid, sober, civil, fiscally conservative, socially enlightened. New York Times(Nov 15, 2016) As Diesel, Cook is both stolid and volatile, his depraved earnestness joining principle and duty, will and obligation. The New Yorker(Nov 12, 2016) Beneath their calm, stolid exteriors may lurk something dark, brooding, even sinister. Wall Street Journal(Oct 21, 2016) adj having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; not easily aroused or excited "a silent stolid creature who took it all as a matter of course"-Virginia Woolf her face showed nothing but stolid indifference Syn impassive unemotional unsusceptible to or destitute of or showing no emotion |
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