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Today's Word "stolid"

Not easily excited on

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stolid \STOL-id\ (adjective) - Having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; not easily excited.

"The redbrick church, austere and stolid as a winter-shorn oak, sprang from the frozen lawn wreathed by sun-sparkling cars." -- James Isaiah Gabbe, 'Larue's Manuevers'

 

Stolid derives from Latin stolidus, "unmoving, stupid."


 

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