stolidest

Adjective

stolid (comparative stolider, superlative stolidest)

1. Having or revealing little emotion or sensibility.
   • He went slowly to his tent and stretched himself on a blanket by the side of the snoring tall soldier. In the darkness he saw visions of a thousand-tongued fear that would babble at his back and cause him to flee, while others were going coolly about their country's business. He admitted that he...1895 October, Stephen Crane, chapter II, in The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC, pages 30–31

   Synonyms:

   cold-hearted, unfeeling, phlegmatic, alexithymic, apathistical, clinical, dull, cold-blooded, dead inside, dispassionate

2. Dully or heavily stupid.
   • Light laughs the breeze / In her Castle above them — / Babbles the Bee in a stolid Ear, / Pipe the Sweet Birds in ignorant cadence — / Ah, what sagacity perished here!a. 1887 (date written), Emily Dickinson, “[Book IV.—Time and Eternity] Safe in Their Alabaster Chambers”, in Mabel Loomis Todd and T[homas] W[entworth] Higginson, editors, Poems, First Series...

   Synonyms:

   slow-witted, thickheaded, addlebrained, addlepated, airheaded, bee-brained, beef-witted, soft, beefheaded, beetle-headed