stoical

English

Etymology

From Middle English stoicalle; equivalent to Latin stōicus +‎ -al or stoic +‎ -al.

Adjective

stoical (comparative more stoical, superlative most stoical)

1. Enduring pain and hardship without showing feeling or complaint.
   • 1969 July 13, Lawrence M. Bensky, “Susan Sontag, Indignant, Stoical, Complex, Useful -- and Moral”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     "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."

Derived terms

• stoically

Related terms

• stoic / Stoic
• stoicism

Translations

enduring pain

• Bulgarian: стоически (bg) (stoičeski)
• Catalan: estoic (ca)
• French: stoïque (fr)
• Greek: στωικός (el) m (stoïkós)
• Maori: whakarongo uka
• Spanish: estoico (es)

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