Stolid means showing little emotion and not easily moved. A stolid expression, stolid indifference, stolid and patient.
It is not quite an insult and not quite praise, since a stolid person is unexcitable but also unresponsive. The Latin behind it meant dull or slow, which is the harsher end of the word.
1adjectivestolidShowing little emotion and not easily moved.
“He listened with a stolid patience that gave nothing away.”
stolid is a quality.
Latin stolidus means dull or slow-witted, and is related to stultus, foolish.
Proto-Indo-European
*stel-
Latin
stolidus
Middle French
stolide
English, today
stolid
From Middle French stolide, from Latin stolidus. From Middle French stolide, from Latin stolidus (“foolish, obtuse, slow”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA