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stolid
/ˈstɑːl.ɪd/
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What does stolid mean?
adjective
- Having or revealing little emotion or sensibility.
- Dully or heavily stupid.
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He was a big, fat, stolid youth of twenty, with a round, expressionless face, and a painful lack of conversational gifts.
The little priest was not an interesting man to look at, having stubbly brown hair and a round and stolid face.
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In fact, hysteria and neurasthenia are much more common in the races freely expressing emotion than in the stolid, repressed races.
However, they remained stolid and motionless, and the mistress left the room to inquire from her superiors what was to be done.
The trim Inspector Martin, the old, grey-headed country doctor, myself, and a stolid village policeman made up the rest of that strange company.