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stolid

adj · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • UK: /ˈstɒl.ɪd/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • US: /ˈstɑːl.ɪd/
  • rhymes with (UK) -ɒlɪd
  • rhymes with (US) -ɑːlɪd
  • CMU ARPABET: S T AA1 L AH0 D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

adj

Meaning 1

Having or revealing little emotion or sensibility.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: cold-hearted, unfeeling, phlegmatic, alexithymic, apathistical, clinical, dull, cold-blooded, dead inside, dispassionate, emotionless, immovable, impassible, impassive, insensible, nonemotional, nonfeeling, nonpassionate, nonsentimental, stolid, unemotional, unmovable, unpassionate, unsentimental

Antonyms: none provided

2

adj

Meaning 2

Dully or heavily stupid.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: slow-witted, thickheaded, addlebrained, addlepated, airheaded, bee-brained, beef-witted, beefheaded, beetle-headed, birdbrained, blockheaded, Boeotian, boneheaded, boofheaded, braindead, brainless, bubbleheaded, buffle-headed, bullet-headed, cerebrally challenged, childish, chowderheaded, chuckleheaded, crackbrained, cretinous, daft, dense, dented, dim-bulb, dim-headed, dim-witted, dim, doltish, dopey, dozy, drowsy, dull-headed, dull-minded, dull-witted, dull, dumber than a box of rocks, dumb, dunderheaded, empty-headed, fatheaded, feeble-minded, flea-brained, foolish, fuzzy-headed, fuzzy-minded, goofy, half-brained, half-witted, hammer-headed, idiotic, ignorant, imbecilic, inane, insipid, intellectually challenged, knuckleheaded, lamebrained, lowbrow, lumpish, lunkheaded, mentally challenged, mentally retarded, mindless, monosynaptic, moronic, muttonheaded, nitwitted, numbskulled, oafish, obtuse, peabrained, pratty, pudding-headed, puerile, purblind, quarter-witted, retarded, ridiculous, rockheaded, sharp as a bowling ball, sheep-headed, silly, simple, slow, slow on the uptake, smooth-brained, stolid, stupid, thick-skulled, thickwitted, thick, unapprehensive, unclever, uninformed, unintelligent, unsmart, vacant, vacuous, witless, wooden-headed, wool-headed, woolly-headed, woolly-minded, dumb as a bag of hammers, dumb as a box of rocks, dumb as a doorknob, dumb as an ox, dumb as a post, dumb as a sack of hammers, dumb as dirt, dumber than a rock, not the sharpest crayon in the box, not the sharpest knife in the drawer, not the sharpest tool in the shed, thick as a brick, thick as a plank, thick as champ, thick as mince, thick as two short planks, thick as a whale omelette, ass-brained, fuckwitted, shit-for-brains, thick as pig shit

Antonyms: none provided

3

adjective satellite

Meaning 3

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

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • her impassive remoteness
  • he remained impassive, showing neither interest in nor concern for our plight
  • a silent stolid creature who took it all as a matter of course
  • her face showed nothing but stolid indifference

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: impassive

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

Etymology tree Latin stolidusder. Middle French stolideder. English stolid From Middle French stolide, from Latin stolidus (“foolish, obtuse, slow”).

Across languages

Translations

36 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Bulgarian: безстрастен (bezstrasten) — having or revealing little emotion or sensibility
  • Bulgarian: отпуснат (otpusnat) — having or revealing little emotion or sensibility
  • Chinese Mandarin: 面无表情 (miànwúbiǎoqíng) — having or revealing little emotion or sensibility
  • Czech: netečný — having or revealing little emotion or sensibility
  • Czech: otupělý — having or revealing little emotion or sensibility
  • Czech: apatický — having or revealing little emotion or sensibility
  • Dutch: uitdrukkingsloos — having or revealing little emotion or sensibility
  • Esperanto: flegma — having or revealing little emotion or sensibility
  • Finnish: ilmeetön — having or revealing little emotion or sensibility
  • Finnish: juro — having or revealing little emotion or sensibility
  • French: impassible — having or revealing little emotion or sensibility
  • German: schwerfällig — having or revealing little emotion or sensibility
  • German: ungerührt — having or revealing little emotion or sensibility
  • German: stoisch — having or revealing little emotion or sensibility
  • German: phlegmatisch — having or revealing little emotion or sensibility
  • German: stur — having or revealing little emotion or sensibility
  • German: gefühllos — having or revealing little emotion or sensibility
  • German: stumpfsinnig — having or revealing little emotion or sensibility
  • German: kaltherzig — having or revealing little emotion or sensibility
  • Hebrew: עצור (atzúr) — having or revealing little emotion or sensibility
  • Italian: stolido — having or revealing little emotion or sensibility
  • Macedonian: рамнодушен (ramnodušen) — having or revealing little emotion or sensibility
  • Macedonian: нечувствителен (nečuvstvitelen) — having or revealing little emotion or sensibility
  • Māori: ngākaukore — having or revealing little emotion or sensibility
  • Māori: tītonga — having or revealing little emotion or sensibility
  • Portuguese: estólido — having or revealing little emotion or sensibility
  • Russian: невозмутимый (nevozmutimyj) — having or revealing little emotion or sensibility
  • Russian: бесстра́стный (besstrástnyj) — having or revealing little emotion or sensibility
  • Russian: тупо́й (tupój) — having or revealing little emotion or sensibility
  • Scottish Gaelic: dùr — having or revealing little emotion or sensibility
  • Serbo-Croatian: равнодушно — having or revealing little emotion or sensibility
  • Spanish: estólido — having or revealing little emotion or sensibility
  • Ukrainian: флегматичний (flehmatyčnyj) — having or revealing little emotion or sensibility
  • Ukrainian: беземоційний (bezemocijnyj) — having or revealing little emotion or sensibility
  • Ukrainian: тупий (tupyj) — having or revealing little emotion or sensibility
  • Māori: rare — Dully or heavily stupid, slow-witted, thickheaded.