stoic
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7.0
- adjective
- /ˈstoʊɪk/
:
estoico
- After hearing the bad news, she remained stoic, refusing to show any sign of distress.
- become stoic
I can't be standing there stoic and mad, scowling.
- I can't be standing there stoic and mad, scowling.
- That you are the sucker that they can keep playing, remaining stoic in the face of that.
- There's wonderful footage, very, very credible witnesses telling these stories in a in a very stoic, dry manner.
- And the only way to try and push him off his waggon was try and get into his head that he was so still faced and straight stoic.
- I get on there and talk to you about kind of very daily Stoic esque about mindset.
- This is Gene Walker, English teacher, very stoic and like this walking on the class.
- So everything that we publish has to really feel kind of almost stoic and over important.
Examples
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She's so absolutely stoic about it.
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How can you be so stoic?
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So it's very, very stoic in, in the most positive way.
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And so I have to be stoic and, and sort of give some guidance where we're going to go with this.
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It's easy to be stoic when no one wants what you have to offer.
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"In spite of the pay cuts, our members remain stoic and are getting on with the job," she says.
Academic text (2010) -
The difficulty here goes back to a stoic attitude toward pain widely shared in Chinese culture.
Academic text (1998) -
Her world privately crumbles, but she tries to remain stoic and carefree.
Fiction book (2000) -
His face was outwardly stoic, with the merest hint of mirth about the eyes.
Fiction book (1993) -
People think of fortune-tellers as sage, stoic Brahmins who are impervious to human emotions or physical suffering.
Fiction book (1995)
Synonyms
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7.8
Not showing feelings or complaining when in pain
Antonyms
How Emotional
Surface Forms
Etymology
Stoic comes from the Greek word stoa meaning 'porch', where those teachers met and taught how to stay calm. So, to be stoic is to endure pain or hardship without showing feelings.