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Antonyms for stoic

Grammar : Adj
Spell : stoh-ik
Phonetic Transcription : ˈstoʊ ɪk

Definition of stoic

Origin :
  • late 14c., "philosopher of the school founded by Zeno," from Latin stoicus, from Greek stoikos "pertaining to a member of or the teachings of the school founded by Zeno (c.334-c.262 B.C.E.), characterized by austere ethical doctrines," literally "pertaining to a portico," from stoa "porch," specifically Stoa Poikile "the Painted Porch," the great hall in Athens (decorated with frescoes depicting the Battle of Marathon) where Zeno taught (see stoa). Meaning "person who represses feelings or endures patiently" first recorded 1570s. The adjective is recorded from 1590s in the "repressing feelings" sense, c.1600 in the philosophical sense.
  • adj philosophic
Example sentences :
  • The Poecile was a portico; portico in Greek is stoa, hence the name of Stoic.
  • Extract from : « Initiation into Philosophy » by Emile Faguet
  • Epictetus, one of the ablest of the Stoic philosophers, was a slave.
  • Extract from : « The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917 » by Various
  • The last was the highest flight of Stoic philosophy about marriage.
  • Extract from : « Folkways » by William Graham Sumner
  • He is a stoic and a fatalist by nature, but an emotionalist as well.
  • Extract from : « The Great White Tribe in Filipinia » by Paul T. Gilbert
  • I am not a stoic, and I have never attempted to appear in that character.
  • Extract from : « Major Frank » by A. L. G. Bosboom-Toussaint
  • But I reconciled myself to the inevitable, and bore up like a stoic.
  • Extract from : « The Martian » by George Du Maurier
  • In the boy's smile had been the whole of stoic doubt, of stoic acquiescence.
  • Extract from : « Saint's Progress » by John Galsworthy
  • Sextus of Chaeronea, a Stoic philosopher, nephew of Plutarch.
  • Extract from : « Meditations » by Marcus Aurelius
  • The Stoic system of physics was materialism with an infusion of pantheism.
  • Extract from : « Meditations » by Marcus Aurelius
  • Tears were something of which her stoic Indian nature was incapable.
  • Extract from : « The Heart of Unaga » by Ridgwell Cullum

Synonyms for stoic

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