STOLID

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stolid mean? 

• STOLID (adjective)
  The adjective STOLID has 1 sense:

1. having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; not easily aroused or excited

  Familiarity information: STOLID used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STOLID (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; not easily aroused or excited

Synonyms:

impassive; stolid

Context example:

her face showed nothing but stolid indifference

Similar:

unemotional (unsusceptible to or destitute of or showing no emotion)

Derivation:

stolidity (an indifference to pleasure or pain)

stolidity (apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions)

stolidness (an indifference to pleasure or pain)

 Context examples 

Archers and seamen lay flat upon the deck, waiting in stolid silence for whatever fate might come.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Hans Nelson was stolid and easy-going, while Edith had long before won his unbounded admiration by her capacity for getting on with people.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

The smith’s broad and usually stolid face was all working with his conflicting emotions.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The trim Inspector Martin, the old, grey-headed country doctor, myself, and a stolid village policeman made up the rest of that strange company.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The sailors, in the main, were English and Scandinavian, and their faces seemed of the heavy, stolid order.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

He was a large-muscled, stolid sort of a man, in whom little imagination was coupled with immense initiative, and who possessed, withal, loyalty and affection as sturdy as his own strength.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Again and even nearer came the rallying Spaniards, and again with cry of fear and stooping bodies they swerved off to right and left, but the English still stood stolid and observant among their rocks.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Here and there the pale, aquiline features of a sporting Corinthian recalled rather the Norman type, but in the main these stolid, heavy-jowled faces, belonging to men whose whole life was a battle, were the nearest suggestion which we have had in modern times of those fierce pirates and rovers from whose loins we have sprung.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)