stolid

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

adjective having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; not easily aroused or excited; ; - Nordhoff & Hall; -Virginia Woolf

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

The French temperament is not stolid. — The Man Upstairs and Other Stories, P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
"What play?" demanded Roger, stolid with astonishment. — Blue-grass and Broadway, Maria Thompson Daviess
The regiment fell back to the stolid trees. — The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War, Stephen Crane

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