stolid

[US]/ˈstɒlɪd/
[UK]/ˈstɑːlɪd/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. showing little or no emotion; indifferent; apathetic
comparative: stolider

Example Sentences

a dependable, stolid member of the team

His stolid expression gave nothing away.

She remained stolid in the face of criticism.

The stolid man never showed any emotion.

Despite the chaos, he remained stolid and composed.

The stolid rock stood firm against the crashing waves.

Her stolid attitude made it hard to read her emotions.

The stolid guard refused to let anyone pass without proper identification.

His stolid demeanor hid a deep well of emotions.

The stolid performance of the actors left the audience unmoved.

She faced the challenge with a stolid determination.

Real-world Examples

He stood looking at her in stolid pity.

Source: Lonely Heart (Part 1)

They would sit silent, more bodeful of the direct antagonism of things than of their insensate and stolid obstructiveness.

Source: Jude the Obscure (Part Two)

He was a big, fat, stolid youth of twenty, with a round, expressionless face, and a painful lack of conversational gifts.

Source: Anne of Green Gables (Original Version)

Isak himself, her lord and master, was earnest and stolid as ever, but he had got on well, and was content.

Source: The Growth of the Earth (Part 1)

However, they remained stolid and motionless, and the mistress left the room to inquire from her superiors what was to be done.

Source: The Unnamed Jude (Middle)

Tyrion blinked in astonishment. Ser Kevan had always been solid, stolid, pragmatic; he had never heard him speak with such fervor before. " You love him" .

Source: A Song of Ice and Fire: A Storm of Ice and Rain (Bilingual)

The count, alarmed at the plans she proposed, denied with stolid obstinacy the advantages of all she had done and the possibility of doing more.

Source: Lily of the Valley (Part 1)

Arthur held out his hand in silence, and Thomas left the room with a carefully made-up expression of unconcern that rendered his face more stolid than ever.

Source: The Gadfly (Original Version)

" A tinge of Jewish blood is not a bad thing. It leavens the" — she looked at him — " stolid stupidity of the ordinary Englishman" .

Source: The Mystery of Styles Court

This time he dragged her back into the rear apartment of his tent where three Negresses looked up in stolid indifference to the tragedy being enacted before them.

Source: Son of Mount Tai (Part 2)

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