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Stoic

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Noun

1. stoic

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

Example Sentences:
'a Stoic achieves happiness by submission to destiny'

2. stoic, unemotional person

someone who is seemingly indifferent to emotions

Adjective

3. stoic, stoical

seeming unaffected by pleasure or pain; impassive

Example Sentences:
'stoic courage'
'stoic patience'
'a stoical sufferer'

4. stoic

pertaining to Stoicism or its followers

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Stoic

see synonyms of stoic
noun
1. 
a member of the ancient Greek school of philosophy founded by Zeno of Citium, holding that virtue and happiness can be attained only by submission to destiny and the natural law
adjective
2. 
of or relating to the doctrines of the Stoics
noun
1. 
a person who maintains stoical qualities
adjective
2.  a variant of stoical

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Stoic

see synonyms of stoic
noun
1. 
a member of a Greek school of philosophy founded by Zeno about 308 b.c., holding that all things, properties, relations, etc. are governed by unvarying natural laws, and that the wise man should follow virtue alone, obtained through reason, remaining indifferent to the external world and to passion or emotion
2.  [s-]
a stoical person
adjective
3. 
of the Stoics or their philosophy
4.  [s-]
stoical

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Stoic

see synonyms of stoic
n.
1. One who is seemingly indifferent to or unaffected by joy, grief, pleasure, or pain.
2. Stoic A member of an originally Greek school of philosophy, founded by Zeno of Citium about 308 BC, believing that God determined everything for the best and that virtue is sufficient for happiness. Its later Roman form advocated the calm acceptance of all occurrences as the unavoidable result of divine will or of the natural order.
adj. also sto·i·cal (-ĭ-kəl)
1. Seemingly indifferent to or unaffected by pleasure or pain; impassive: "stoic resignation in the face of hunger" (John F. Kennedy).
2. Stoic Of or relating to the Stoics or their philosophy.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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