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STOICAL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does stoical mean?
• STOICAL (adjective)
The adjective STOICAL has 1 sense:
1. seeming unaffected by pleasure or pain; impassive
Familiarity information: STOICAL used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Seeming unaffected by pleasure or pain; impassive
Synonyms:
stoic; stoical
Context example:
a stoical sufferer
Similar:
unemotional (unsusceptible to or destitute of or showing no emotion)
Derivation:
stoic (someone who is seemingly indifferent to emotions)
stoicism (an indifference to pleasure or pain)
Context examples
Like the savage, the attitude of these men was stoical in great things, childish in little things.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
That would be stoical.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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