Stoic

Stoic



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transliterately, (S-) 斯多葛學派哲學家



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–adjective 

1. of or pertaining to the school of philosophy founded by Zeno, who taught that people should be free from passion, unmoved by joy or grief, and submit without complaint to unavoidable necessity. 

2. (lowercase) stoical.  



–noun 

3. a member or adherent of the Stoic school of philosophy. 

4. (lowercase) a person who maintains or affects the mental attitude advocated by the Stoics.

  

—Synonyms 

1. imperturbable [im-per-tur-buh-buhl] (沈著的;冷靜的)

, cool, indifferent.



—Antonyms 

1. sympathetic, warm, demonstrative, effusive.【地】噴發的





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stoic (adj., n.), stoical (adj.)   

 

Stoic is both noun and adjective; stoical is also an adjective: He is [a] stoic about pain. He [is] stoic about pain. He is stoic[al] about pain. Each is Standard. 



 

 

Ledger got his one and only Oscar nomination for his role as the painfully stoic cowboy who finds a love he can't admit in Jake Gyllenhaal's Jack Twist. Ledger somehow conveyed oceans of depth through a character whose surface was as still as a mountain lake.





see asceticism 



hedonistic

compliant effervescent

tepid lukewarm

diffident timid, shy