stoic
enduring pain or hardship without showing feeling
Word origin: From Greek stoa, the porch where the Stoic philosophers taught.
Stoic in a sentence
Here are example sentences showing stoic in a sentence.
She bore the bad news with stoic composure.
She bore the long convalescence with a stoic composure that masked considerable pain.
Using “stoic” well
Stoic describes the endurance of pain or hardship without showing feeling. Capitalized, it refers to the ancient Greek philosophical school from which the trait takes its name.
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