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say it: STAH-luhd
stolid is an adjective meaning "having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; not easily aroused or excited". It is pronounced /ˈstɑləd/ — STAH-luhd. It carries one recorded sense.
having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; not easily aroused or excited
“her impassive remoteness”
“he remained impassive, showing neither interest in nor concern for our plight”
“a silent stolid creature who took it all as a matter of course”
“her face showed nothing but stolid indifference”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for stolid come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.