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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

STOIC, n. [Gr., a porch in Athens where the philosopher Zeno taught.] A disciple of the philosopher Zeno, who founded a sect. He taught that men should be free from passion, unmoved by joy or grief, and submit without complaint to the unavoidable necessity by which all things are governed.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: seeming unaffected by pleasure or pain; impassive; "stoic courage"; "stoic patience"; "a stoical sufferer" [syn: stoic, stoical]
2: pertaining to Stoicism or its followers n
1: a member of the ancient Greek school of philosophy founded by Zeno; "a Stoic achieves happiness by submission to destiny"
2: someone who is seemingly indifferent to emotions [syn: stoic, unemotional person] [ant: emotional person]

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Latin stoicus, from Greek st?īkos, literally, of the portico, from Stoa (Poikil?) the Painted Portico, portico at Athens where Zeno taught Date: 14th century 1. capitalized a member of a school of philosophy founded by Zeno of Citium about 300 B.C. holding that the wise man should be free from passion, unmoved by joy or grief, and submissive to natural law 2. one apparently or professedly indifferent to pleasure or pain II. adjective or stoical Date: 15th century 1. capitalized of, relating to, or resembling the Stoics or their doctrines <Stoic logic> 2. not affected by or showing passion or feeling; especially firmly restraining response to pain or distress <a stoic indifference to cold> Synonyms: see impassive • stoically adverb

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & adj. --n. 1 a member of the ancient Greek school of philosophy founded at Athens by Zeno c.308 BC, which sought virtue as the greatest good and taught control of one's feelings and passions. 2 (stoic) a stoical person. --adj. 1 of or like the Stoics. 2 (stoic) = STOICAL. Etymology: ME f. L stoicus f. Gk stoikos f. STOA (with ref. to Zeno's teaching in the Stoa Poikile or Painted Porch at Athens)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Stoic Sto"ic, n. [L. stoicus, Gr. ?, fr. ?, adj., literally, of or pertaining to a colonnade, from ? a roofed colonnade, a porch, especially, a porch in Athens where Zeno and his successors taught.] 1. A disciple of the philosopher Zeno; one of a Greek sect which held that men should be free from passion, unmoved by joy or grief, and should submit without complaint to unavoidable necessity, by which all things are governed. 2. Hence, a person not easily excited; an apathetic person; one who is apparently or professedly indifferent to pleasure or pain. A Stoic of the woods, a man without a tear. --Campbell. School of Stoics. See The Porch, under Porch.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Stoic Sto"ic, Stoical Sto"ic*al, a. [L. stoicus, Gr. ?: cf. F. sto["i]que. See Stoic, n.] 1. Of or pertaining to the Stoics; resembling the Stoics or their doctrines. 2. Not affected by passion; manifesting indifference to pleasure or pain. -- Sto"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Sto"ic*al*ness, n.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(stoics) 1. Stoic means the same as stoical. (FORMAL) The kids of Kobe try to be as stoic as their parents in this tragic situation. ADJ [approval] 2. If you say that someone is a stoic, you approve of them because they do not complain or show they are upset in bad situations. (FORMAL) N-COUNT [approval]

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. n. Follower of Zeno, Stoical philosopher. II. a.; (also stoical) Passionless, apathetic, unimpassioned, imperturbable, philosophic, Platonic, cool, indifferent, cold, cold-blooded, impassive, impassible, patient.

Moby Thesaurus

Laodicean, Olympian, Spartan, accepting, aloof, apathetic, armed with patience, at rest, benumbed, blah, blase, bovine, calm, cloistered, comatose, cool, desensitized, detached, disciplined, disinterested, dispassionate, dull, dwindling, ebbing, endurant, enduring, even-tempered, even-tenored, forbearing, halcyon, heartless, hebetudinous, hopeless, hushed, impassive, imperturbable, in a stupor, indifferent, indulgent, inexcitable, inirritable, insouciant, isolated, languid, lenient, lethargic, listless, long-suffering, longanimous, man of iron, moldering, nonchalant, numb, numbed, pacific, passive, patient, patient as Job, peaceable, peaceful, persevering, philosophical, phlegmatic, placid, pluckless, quiescent, quiet, reposeful, reposing, resigned, restful, resting, secluded, self-controlled, sequestered, sequestrated, sheltered, slack, sluggish, smooth, soporific, spiritless, spunkless, steady, still, still as death, stillish, stilly, stolid, stupefied, subsiding, supine, tolerant, tolerating, tolerative, torpid, tranquil, unagitated, uncaring, unconcerned, understanding, undisturbable, undisturbed, unflappable, uninterested, unirritable, unmoved, unnervous, unpassionate, unperturbed, unruffled, unstirring, untroubled, waning, withdrawn