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stoical

/ˈstəʊ.ɪk.əl/US/ˈstoʊ.ɪk.əl/

stoical adjective: enduring pain and hardship without showing feeling or complaint.

Adjective

stoical (comparative more stoical, superlative most stoical)

  1. Enduring pain and hardship without showing feeling or complaint.
    • "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."1969 July 13, Lawrence M. Bensky, “Susan Sontag, Indignant, Stoical, Complex, Useful -- and Moral”, in The New York Times

stoical meaning in Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Vietnamese

stoical in Tamil

இன்பதுன்ப நடுநிலைக்கோட்பாடு சார்ந்த

stoical in Malayalam

uncomplaining, long-suffering, patient
സമസുഖാസുഖബുദ്ധിയായ, ക്ഷമയോടുകൂടി സഹിക്കുന്ന, നല്ല സഹനശക്തിയുള്ള, പ്രകോപനം ക്ഷമയോടെ സഹിക്കുന്ന, ധൃതക്ലേശ, ക്ലേശം അനുഭവിച്ചു കൊണ്ടിരിക്കുന്ന

stoical in Kannada

ಮೌನವಾಗಿ ನಷ್ಟವನ್ನು ಅನುಭವಿಸುವ, ಸಂಯಮಿ, ವಿರಕ್ತ, ಉದಾಸೀನ, ಜಿತೇಂದ್ರಿಯ, ಅನುದ್ವಿಗ್ನ

stoical in Vietnamese

enduring pain
khắc kỉ

Forms of stoical

comparativemore stoical
superlativemost stoical

Origin of stoical

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

Words formed from stoical

Questions about stoical

What does stoical mean?
Stoical means enduring pain and hardship without showing feeling or complaint.
What is stoical in Tamil?
Stoical in Tamil is இன்பதுன்ப நடுநிலைக்கோட்பாடு சார்ந்த. See Stoical meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is stoical?
Stoical is an adjective.
How do you pronounce stoical?
Stoical is pronounced /ˈstoʊ.ɪk.əl/ (US).

Words near stoical in the dictionary

  1. Stohwasser
  2. Stohwassers
  3. stoiberite
  4. stoic
  5. Stoica
  6. stoical
  7. stoically
  8. stoicalness
  9. Stoicas
  10. stoich
  11. stoich.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: stoical (page history and authors); stoical (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); stoical (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); stoical (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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