stoic
/ˈstoʊ.ɪk/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.15 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Proponent of stoicism, a school of thought, from in 300 B.C.E. up to about the time of Marcus Aurelius, who holds that by cultivating an understanding of the logos, or natural law, one can be free of suffering.
noun
A person indifferent to pleasure or pain.
adj
Alternative letter-case form of stoic.
noun
Alternative letter-case form of stoic.
Example Sentences
- "The anima mundi, to whose disposal of his own personal destiny the Stoic consents, is there to be respected and submitted to, but the Christian God is there to be loved; and the difference of emotional atmosphere is like that between an arctic climate and the tropics, though the outcome in the way of accepting actual conditions uncomplainingly may seem in abstract terms to be much the same."
- "Even a Rolls-Royce owner, I began to feel, would be a stoic to travel across Europe by car when the "Rheingold" is on offer."
- "It makes a tremendous emotional and practical difference to one whether one accept the universe in the drab discolored way of stoic resignation to necessity, or with the passionate happiness of Christian saints."
- "I suspect that cancer doesn't give a rat's ass whether you have a positive mental attitude. It just sits in there multiplying away, whether you are admirably stoic or weeping and wailing."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: stōicus, Stoycis, Στωϊκός
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈstoʊ.ɪk/
- British English: /ˈstəʊ.ɪk/
Inflected Forms
stoics (plural)
Stoick (alternative, obsolete)
Stoïc (alternative, obsolete)
Stoïck (alternative, obsolete)
more stoic (comparative)
most stoic (superlative)