Crossword clues for stoic
stoic
- Uncomplaining; philosopher
- Hard to rattle
- Devoid of emotion
- Very cool
- Displaying no emotion
- Showing little emotion
- Hard to move
- Zeno, e.g
- Unemotional one
- Hard to stir
- Unwilling to yield
- Far from passionate
- Unlikely to come unglued
- Unemotional person
- Keeping a stiff upper lip
- Far from emotional
- Vulcan in demeanor
- Unemotional to a fault
- Uncomplaining sort
- Unaffected by passion
- Showing no pain
- Seneca, for one
- One who accepts his destiny
- Not showing emotion
- Not easily stirred
- Not at all emotional
- Hardly the emotional type
- Emotion-hiding sort
- Zeno e.g
- Unlikely to explode?
- Unlikely to crack a smile, say
- Unlikely to become overwrought
- Unlikely to be moved
- Unlike a ham
- Uninclined to complain
- Unemotional thinker
- Undemonstrative to the max
- Undemonstrative sort
- Uncomplaining in the face of adversity
- Student of Zeno
- Stony type
- Sort with a stiff upper lip
- Seneca, philosophically
- Putting on a poker face
- Person who isn't fazed by pain
- One who is unmoved by joy or grief
- One accepting of his lot
- Not very excitable
- Not very emotional
- Not showing passion
- Not prone to emotional displays
- Not overly emotional
- Marcus Aurelius was one
- Like Spock
- Indifferent to pain, as one should be
- Imperturbable person
- Impassive type
- Hardboiled to a degree
- Hard-to-read type
- Hard to startle
- Hard to read, facially
- Hard to be moved
- Hard to arouse
- Epictetus, e.g
- Dispassionate person
- Detached type
- Completely unemotional
- Brutus, philosophically
- Being like "That doesn't hurt" when it hurts, for example
- "I don't need Novocaine" type
- Having a stiff upper lip
- Zeno follower
- Uncomplaining type
- Impassive one
- Zeno was one
- Like Zeno
- Zeno, notably
- One who grins and bears it
- Stiff-upper-lip type
- Zeno, for one
- Bite-the-bullet type
- Hardly the screaming type
- Follower of Zeno
- Far from demonstrative
- Hard to get to
- Showing no emotions
- Immovable type
- Bullet-biting type
- One who never cries "Ow!"
- Phlegmatic
- Indifferent to pleasure or pain
- Follower of the philosopher Epictetus
- Betraying no emotion
- Giving nothing away, in a way
- Not reacting to pain, say
- Not moved much
- Unmoved one
- Unresponsive?
- Unemotive
- Unmovable
- Unflinching in the face of pain, say
- Not easily moved
- Not the movable type
- Someone who is seemingly indifferent to emotions
- A member of the ancient Greek school of philosophy founded by Zeno
- Stiff-upper-lip sort
- Zeno, e.g.
- Impertubable one
- Calm during calamities
- One who bites the bullet
- Hardly emotional
- Unresponding
- Tough guy
- Unflappable sort
- Silent sufferer
- One of Zeno's followers
- Seneca was one
- Self-controlled one
- Stiff-upper-lip chap
- Zeno disciple
- Firmly restrained
- Unexcitable
- Austere person
- Imperturbable one
- Unemotional sort
- Man of iron
- Good man in charge, with love at heart, makes a good bearer
- One in bed's sitting up, tolerating discomfort
- One displaying a 17 Across
- Old beset by criticism, mostly long-suffering
- Surrounded by most of family, I resigned
- Someone seemingly indifferent to pleasure or pain
- Long-suffering wife’s second to enter incomplete family
- Reduced sick wards closed for patient
- Phlegmatic type’s standing briefly recognised around India
- Phlegmatic type almost shut in thus
- Patient, small one in bed, having a turn
- Beds overturned after introduction of one patient
- A lot of criticism about old philosopher
- Job, perhaps one dividing half of sheep up
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stoic \Sto"ic\, n. [L. stoicus, Gr. ?, fr. ?, adj., literally, of or pertaining to a colonnade, from ? a roofed colonnade, a porch, especially, a porch in Athens where Zeno and his successors taught.]
A disciple of the philosopher Zeno; one of a Greek sect which held that men should be free from passion, unmoved by joy or grief, and should submit without complaint to unavoidable necessity, by which all things are governed.
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Hence, a person not easily excited; an apathetic person; one who is apparently or professedly indifferent to pleasure or pain.
A Stoic of the woods, a man without a tear.
--Campbell.School of Stoics. See The Porch, under Porch.
Stoic \Sto"ic\, Stoical \Sto"ic*al\, a. [L. stoicus, Gr. ?: cf. F. sto["i]que. See Stoic, n.]
Of or pertaining to the Stoics; resembling the Stoics or their doctrines.
Not affected by passion; manifesting indifference to pleasure or pain; especially, bearing pain, suffering, or bad fortune without complaint. -- Sto"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Sto"ic*al*ness, n.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "philosopher of the school founded by Zeno," from Latin stoicus, from Greek stoikos "pertaining to a member of or the teachings of the school founded by Zeno (c.334-c.262 B.C.E.), characterized by austere ethical doctrines," literally "pertaining to a portico," from stoa "porch," specifically Stoa Poikile "the Painted Porch," the great hall in Athens (decorated with frescoes depicting the Battle of Marathon) where Zeno taught (see stoa). Meaning "person who represses feelings or endures patiently" first recorded 1570s. The adjective is recorded from 1590s in the "repressing feelings" sense, c.1600 in the philosophical sense. Compare stoical.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Of or relating to the Stoics or their ideas. 2 Not affected by pain or distress. 3 Not displaying any external signs of being affected by pain or distress. n. 1 (context philosophy English) Proponent of a school of thought, from in 300 (B.C.E.) up to about the time of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus%20Aurelius, who holds that by cultivating an understanding of the logos, or natural law, one can be free of suffering. 2 A person indifferent to pleasure or pain.
WordNet
adj. seeming unaffected by pleasure or pain; impassive; "stoic courage"; "stoic patience"; "a stoical sufferer" [syn: stoical]
pertaining to Stoicism or its followers
Wikipedia
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Usage examples of "stoic".
Tully is speaking there according to the opinions of the Stoics, who did not give the name of passions to all, but only to the disorderly movements of the sensitive appetite.
Stoic, just as he was a prig and a polygamist and several other unpleasant and heathen things.
Corporal Scithers, was stoic, a quiet young man when others were around, but when alone with his commander he could rattle on endlessly about weapons and vehicles and other military matters.
Sceptics, or decide with the Stoics, sublimely speculate with Plato, or severely argue with Aristotle.
He tended to smile, while his companion was stoic of expression in keeping with his Amerind tradition.
Bruce Cook, a slim, personable, slightly balding grown-up version of the brainiest kid you ever knew in high school, provided a contrast to Allan Ropper, with his more athletic bearing, stoic square-jawed countenance, and full head of graying hair.
From a stoic swamp Yankee to a reserved federal agent to a brash aspiring criminologist, who obviously knew her own mind.
Of the four most celebrated schools, the Stoics and the Platonists endeavored to reconcile the jarring interests of reason and piety.
Stoic and Aristotelian syllogistic and dialectic method used also by his Monarchian opponents.
Davy Hansen was too much the stoic Norski to show surprise if he could help it.
Even the stoic Klingon seemed horrified by the scope of what Sela was discussing so calmly.
Secondly, the satiric voice in both poets shifts in tone, topic, and values from section to section and line to line, avoiding universal statements as a matter of principle, and condemning whoever, Stoic or Tory, uses universals as a source of unworthy power.
Stoic and Epicurean, and you both think, I fear, that if Xanthippe had founded a school, my philosophy would also be defined.
The influence of the Stoic and Epicurean philosophies of Nova Babylonia was evident in her doctrines, and deplored.
The big herbivores turned to face the rain, stoic misery in their posture.