stoic

²sto·ic

adj \ˈstō-ik\

Definition of STOIC

1

capitalized : of, relating to, or resembling the Stoics (see ¹stoic) or their doctrines <Stoic logic>

2

: not affected by or showing passion or feeling; especially : firmly restraining response to pain or distress <a stoic indifference to cold>

— sto·ical·ly \-i-k(ə-)lē\ adverb

Variants of STOIC

sto·ic or sto·i·cal \-i-kəl\

Examples of STOIC

1. He had a stoic expression on his face.
2. <after waiting six years for permission to immigrate to the U.S., the family is stoic about a six-month postponement>
3. My stoic Serbian brother-in-law, Aleksandar Vasilic, gave me the ultimate confidence booster of bawling all the way through the manuscript when I gave it to him to read. —Helene Cooper, The House At Sugar Beach, (2008) 2009
4. Grant recorded his thought-experiment when he was an old man dying of cancer, who in spite of his pain had managed to achieve a stoical serenity. —Jackson Lears, New Republic, 9 & 16 Sept. 2002
5. As it flew past the pole, a three-run homer, Richardson saw the stoical Berra do something he'd never seen him do. “Halfway between home and first, he was jumping up and down,” Richardson recalls. “Boy, was he happy to hit that ball!” —William Nack, Sports Illustrated, 23 Oct. 2000

Origin of STOIC

(see ¹stoic)

First Known Use: 15th century

Related to STOIC

Synonyms: forbearing, long-suffering, patient (or stoical), tolerant, uncomplaining

Antonyms: complaining, fed up, impatient, kvetching, kvetchy, protesting

Related Words: lenient; acquiescent, passive, resigned, unresistant, yielding; agreeable, amenable, compliant, complying, conformist, docile, law-abiding, obedient, placable, submissive, subordinate, tractable, willing; slavish, subservient; amiable, obliging; collected, composed; constrained, contained, curbed, inhibited, repressed, restrained; disciplined, self-contained, self-controlled; apathetic, uncaring, unresponsive

Near Antonyms: bored, tired, weary; defiant, resistant; contrary, disobedient, insubordinate, intractable, rebellious, recalcitrant, refractory, ungovernable, unmanageable, unruly

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dialectic, dualism, epistemology, existentialism, metaphysics, ontology, sequitur, solipsism, transcendentalism