stoic

1. 1.

   a member of the ancient Greek school of philosophy founded by Zeno

   “a Stoic achieves happiness by submission to destiny”

   Broaderphilosopher
2. 2.

   someone who is seemingly indifferent to emotions

   Synonymsunemotional person

   Broaderadult

1. 1.

   seeming unaffected by pleasure or pain; impassive

   “stoic courage”

   “stoic patience”

   “a stoical sufferer”

   Synonymsstoical

   Similarunemotional
2. 2.

   pertaining to Stoicism or its followers

Other forms of stoic

plural

stoics·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about stoic

What does stoic mean?

stoic means "a member of the ancient Greek school of philosophy founded by Zeno". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in stoic?

stoic has 2 syllables: sto-ic. The stress falls on "sto". In IPA it is /ˈstoʊɪk/.

What is another word for stoic?

Close synonyms include unemotional person, stoical. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is stoic a common word?

stoic is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.