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Synonyms stoical


stoic courage.
stoic patience.
a stoical sufferer.
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Synonyms unemotional person
Type of adult, grownup
Derivation stoical
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Type of philosopher
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Examples of stoic

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When she is working, she is stoic, respectful and focused on what she has to do.
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Men may have been socialized to deny pain and to be stoic if they experience it.
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The popular image of Mennonites is of stoic, white followers in the countryside.
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It would be a quieter heroism I would seek, stoic and grounded like my father's.
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And Mel's transformation from mental wreck to stoic survivor seems far too easy.
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Howard, much like the Bulldogs, is more of a stoic, hardworking Midwestern guy.
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Javier Bardem plays the stoic and terrifying Anton Chigurh, who's hunting Moss.
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Everyone was sort of politely stoic about being forced into involuntary frottage.
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Natalie Portman, who plays a warrior who joins their quest, is stoic and bland.
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  • A member of the ancient Greek school of philosophy founded by Zeno; "a Stoic achieves happiness by submission to destiny"
  • Seeming unaffected by pleasure or pain; impassive; "stoic courage"; "stoic patience"; "a stoical sufferer"
  • Someone who is seemingly indifferent to emotions
  • Pertaining to Stoicism or its followers
  • (stoically) without emotion; in a stoic manner; "he stoically accepted all suffering"
  • (stoicism) an indifference to pleasure or pain
  • STOIC (Stack-Oriented Interactive Compiler) was a variant of Forth. It started out at the MIT and Harvard Biomedical Engineering Centre in Boston, (part of the Health, Science and Technology Division) and was written in the mid 1970s by Jonathan Sachs. ...
  • Stoic is an arthouse feature by Uwe Boll. The film is one of two dramas, the other Darfur, Boll plans to direct. Unlike many of his previous directorial efforts, Stoic is not an adaptation of a video game.
  • The Stoic is a novel by Theodore Dreiser, first published in 1947. It is the conclusion to A Trilogy of Desire, his series of novels about Frank Cowperwood, a businessman based on the real-life streetcar tycoon Charles Yerkes. ...