Stoical
['stəʊɪk(ə)l] or ['stoɪkl]
Definition
(n.) Of or pertaining to the Stoics; resembling the Stoics or their doctrines.
(n.) Not affected by passion; manifesting indifference to pleasure or pain.
Edited by Arnold
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Passionless, apathetic, unimpassioned, imperturbable, philosophic, Platonic, cool, indifferent, cold, cold-blooded.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Philosophical, Indifferent, apathetic, phlegmatic, patient, inexcitable,imperturbable
ANT:Sanguine, excitable, sensitive, impatient
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Examples
- Though stoical, I was not quite a stoic; drops streamed fast on my hands, on my desk: I wept one sultry shower, heavy and brief. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Another episode at Goerck Street did not find the visitors quite so stoical. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He existed a pure, unconnected will, stoical and momentaneous. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Stoical, but contradictory. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- You are laconic; you would be stoical if you could. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- That would be stoical. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- About the present, it was better to be stoical; about the future--such a future as mine--to be dead. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
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