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单词 stolid
释义
stolid
adjective
uk
/ˈstɒl.ɪd/us
/ˈstɑː.lɪd/
(of aperson)calmand notshowingemotionorexcitement:
He's a very stolid,seriousman.他是个喜怒不形于色、很严肃的人。
Synonym
impassive
(of a thing) notinterestingorattractive:
Thecollegeis a stolid-lookingbuildingwith nolawn.这所学院外观呆板，连草坪都没有。
More examples
  • Even NASA'sgenerallystolidengineerswereimpressed.
  • a stolid sheriff'sdeputy
  • Histeammatesbeseechedhim to take abow. Williamsremainedstolid.
  • She comesacrossas stolid and bureacratic in herresponse.
  • Hisinvestmentshavetendedto besafeand stolid.
  • Withitsstolid,drabexterior, the Centerresemblesacombatbunker.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Not showing or feeling emotions
  • anodyne
  • anti-sentimental
  • belie
  • bite
  • biteyourlipidiom
  • bloodless
  • hard-bitten
  • icily
  • impassive
  • impassively
  • impassivity
  • internalize
  • poker face
  • poker-faced
  • reserved
  • sphinx-like
  • stiff upper lip
  • stoic
  • unsentimental
  • woodenly
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Calm and relaxed
Lacking interest and enthusiasm
Not attractive to look at

Related word

stolidly
(Definition ofstolidfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)
stolid
adjective
disapproving
uk
/ˈstɒl.ɪd/us
/ˈstɑː.lɪd/
(of aperson)calmand notshowingemotionorexcitement, or (of a thing) notinterestingorattractive
（人）不动感情的，淡漠的，无动于衷的；（事物）索然无趣的
He's a very stolid,seriousman.他是个喜怒不形于色、很严肃的人。
Thecollegeis a stolid-lookingbuildingwith nolawn.这所学院外观呆板，连草坪都没有。

stolid| American Dictionary

stolid
adjective
us
/ˈstɑl·ɪd/
showinglittle or noemotionorimagination:
Stolid andimpassive, thecustomsinspectorlistenedto herexplanation.
(Definition ofstolidfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofstolid

stolid
But he was also as vain as he wasstolid, and, while not uncrafty, as unsubtle as any man who thinks in blocks.
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The men walking in front and the laden,stolidwomen following them like burros.
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Mountains form a remote andstolidbackdrop to the broken flotsam of the plain.
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It is a spatially dynamic world although the organising frame itself isstolidand unchanging.
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This simple addition lends a welcome melodic smoothness and a soupçon of harmonic friction to the excessivelystolidopening.
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And he interpolates such claims with morestolidstatements indicative of judgment and medical authority.
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Contemporaries were well aware that in harnessing the previously rather formal,stolidworld of the book to serve these ends evangelical critics of the church had achieved something fundamentally new.
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He is far too sturdy andstolidin his judgments to be deceived by insincerity.
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We are refused the information while parties to the bargain sit instolidsilence.
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They will certainly not maintain astolid, stoic silence.
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Its only piece of political meat is astolid, anachronistic repetition of yesterday's cold war doctrine.
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He has through having perhaps had natural advantages for years, become astolidchild of nature.
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They are called slow andstolid.
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What incentive is there now to back these firms in preference, let us say, to dull andstolidsupermarket chains, if this measure is not reversed?
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Stolidand stunned, a brother to the ox?
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