Meanings
comparative more stoical · superlative most stoical
- Enduring pain and hardship without showing feeling or complaint.
"More and more, the shrewdest thinkers and artists are precocious archeologists of ... ruins-in-the-making, indignant or stoical diagnosticians of defeat, enigmatic choreographers of the complex spiritual movements useful for individual survival in an era or permanent apocalypse."
1969 July 13, Lawrence M. Bensky, “Susan Sontag, Indignant, Stoical, Complex, Useful -- and Moral”, in The New York Times
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveseeming unaffected by pleasure or pain; impassive
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Middle Englishstoicalle
- Englishstoical
From Middle English stoicalle, from Latin stōicus + -al. By surface analysis, stoic + -al.
More words from Middle English
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Bulgarian стоически
- стоически (stoičeski)enduring pain
Catalan estoic
- estoicenduring pain
French stoïque
- stoïqueenduring pain
Greek στωικός
- στωικός (stoïkós)enduring pain
Māori whakarongo uka
- whakarongo ukaenduring pain
Polish stoicki
- stoickienduring pain
Portuguese estoico
- estoicoenduring pain
Spanish estoico
- estoicoenduring pain
Vietnamese khắc kỉ
- khắc kỉenduring pain
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stoical. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/stoical
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