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stolid
(encz) | stolid,apatický adj: Zdeněk Brož |
stolid
(encz) | stolid,lhostejný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
stolid
(encz) | stolid,netečný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
Stolid
(gcide) | Stolid \Stol"id\, a. [L. stolidus.]
Hopelessly insensible or stupid; not easily aroused or
excited; dull; impassive; foolish.
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stolid
(wn) | stolid
adj 1: having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; not
easily aroused or excited; "her impassive remoteness";
"he remained impassive, showing neither interest in nor
concern for our plight"- Nordhoff & Hall; "a silent
stolid creature who took it all as a matter of
course"-Virginia Woolf; "her face showed nothing but
stolid indifference" [syn: impassive, stolid] |
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stolidity
(encz) | stolidity,flegmatičnost n: Zdeněk Brož |
stolidly
(encz) | stolidly,apaticky adv: Zdeněk Brožstolidly,netečně adv: Zdeněk Brož |
stolidness
(encz) | stolidness, |
Anous stolidus
(gcide) | Noddy \Nod"dy\, n.; pl. Noddies. [Prob. fr. nod to incline the
head, either as in assent, or from drowsiness.]
1. A simpleton; a fool. --L'Estrange.
Syn: tomnoddy.
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2. (Zool.)
(a) Any tern of the genus Anous, as Anous stolidus.
(b) The arctic fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis). Sometimes
also applied to other sea birds.
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3. An old game at cards. --Halliwell.
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4. A small two-wheeled one-horse vehicle.
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5. An inverted pendulum consisting of a short vertical flat
spring which supports a rod having a bob at the top; --
used for detecting and measuring slight horizontal
vibrations of a body to which it is attached.
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phlegmatic phlegmatical stolid
(gcide) | emotionless \e*mo"tion*less\ adj.
1. unsusceptible to, destitute of, or showing no emotion;
unmoved by feeling. Opposite of emotional; as, he kept
his emotionless objectivity and faith in the cause he
served. [Narrower terms: matter-of-fact, prosaic;
philosophical, philosophic; {phlegmatic, phlegmatical,
stolid}; stoic, stoical; unblinking] Also See: cool,
passionless, unmoved(predicate), unmoving.
Syn: unemotional, passionless.
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Stolid
(gcide) | Stolid \Stol"id\, a. [L. stolidus.]
Hopelessly insensible or stupid; not easily aroused or
excited; dull; impassive; foolish.
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Stolidity
(gcide) | Stolidity \Sto*lid"i*ty\, n. [L. stoliditas.]
The state or quality of being stolid; dullness of intellect;
obtuseness; stupidity.
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Indocile, intractable fools, whose stolidity can baffle
all arguments, and be proof against demonstration
itself. --Bentley.
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Stolidness
(gcide) | Stolidness \Stol"id*ness\, n.
Same as Stolidity.
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stolidity
(wn) | stolidity
n 1: apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions
[syn: emotionlessness, impassivity, impassiveness,
phlegm, indifference, stolidity, unemotionality]
2: an indifference to pleasure or pain [syn: stoicism,
stolidity, stolidness] |
stolidly
(wn) | stolidly
adv 1: in a stolid manner; "he said `no' stolidly" |
stolidness
(wn) | stolidness
n 1: an indifference to pleasure or pain [syn: stoicism,
stolidity, stolidness] |
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