| 词汇 | stolid |
| 释义 | stolid adjective uk /ˈstɒl.ɪd/ us /ˈstɑː.lɪd/ (of a person) calm and not showing emotion or excitement : （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, serious man.他是个喜怒不形于色、很严肃的人。 Synonym impassive (of a thing) not interesting or attractive: The college is a stolid-looking building with no lawn. Even NASA's generally stolid engineers were impressed. a stolid sheriff's deputy His teammates beseeched him to take a bow. Williams remained stolid. She comes across as stolid and bureacratic in her response. His investments have tended to be safe and stolid. With its stolid, drab exterior, the Center resembles a combat bunker. Not showing or feeling emotions anodyne anti-sentimental belie bite bite your lipidiom frozenly glaze hard-bitten hardened icily phlegmatically poker face reserved reservedly sphinx-like unmoved unprocessed unresponsive unresponsively unresponsiveness You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Calm and relaxed Lacking interest and enthusiasm Not attractive to look at Related wordstolidly stolid | American Dictionarystolid adjective us/ˈstɑl·ɪd/ showing little or no emotion or imagination: Stolid and impassive, the customs inspector listened to her explanation. Examples of stolidstolid But he was also as vain as he was stolid, and, while not uncrafty, as unsubtle as any man who thinks in blocks. The men walking in front and the laden, stolid women following them like burros. Mountains form a remote and stolid backdrop to the broken flotsam of the plain. It is a spatially dynamic world although the organising frame itself is stolid and unchanging. This simple addition lends a welcome melodic smoothness and a soupçon of harmonic friction to the excessively stolid opening. And he interpolates such claims with more stolid statements indicative of judgment and medical authority. Contemporaries were well aware that in harnessing the previously rather formal, stolid world of the book to serve these ends evangelical critics of the church had achieved something fundamentally new. He is far too sturdy and stolid in his judgments to be deceived by insincerity. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are refused the information while parties to the bargain sit in stolid silence. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They will certainly not maintain a stolid, stoic silence. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Its only piece of political meat is a stolid, anachronistic repetition of yesterday's cold war doctrine. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He has through having perhaps had natural advantages for years, become a stolid child of nature. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are called slow and stolid. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 What incentive is there now to back these firms in preference, let us say, to dull and stolid supermarket chains, if this measure is not reversed? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Stolid and stunned, a brother to the ox? From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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