Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

stoical

/ˈstoʊ.ɪk.əl/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.81 in modern English

Syllables: sto-ical
IPA: /ˈstoʊ.ɪk.əl/

9

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Enduring pain and hardship without showing feeling or complaint.

Example Sentences

""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.""

Etymology

From Middle English stoicalle, from Latin stōicus + -al. By surface analysis, stoic + -al.

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: stoicalle

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˈstoʊ.ɪk.əl/
British English: /ˈstəʊ.ɪk.əl/

Inflected Forms

more stoical (comparative) most stoical (superlative)

Derived Forms

stoically stoicalness superstoical unstoical

Frequently Paired Words

stoic stoicism

Synonyms

stoic

Questions

How do you pronounce stoical?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈstoʊ.ɪk.əl/.
What does stoical mean?: Enduring pain and hardship without showing feeling or complaint.
Where does stoical come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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