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stolid adjective [ ˈstɒlɪd ]

• calm, dependable, and showing little emotion or animation.
• "a stolid bourgeois gent"
Similar: impassive, phlegmatic, unemotional, calm, placid, unexcitable, apathetic, uninterested, unimaginative, indifferent, dull, bovine, lumpish, wooden, slow, lethargic, torpid, stupid,
Opposite: emotional, lively, imaginative,
Origin: late 16th century: from obsolete French stolide or Latin stolidus (perhaps related to stultus ‘foolish’).


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