Stoical is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for STOICAL in dictionary:

NOUN:
• Of or pertaining to the Stoics; resembling the Stoics or their doctrines.
• Not affected by passion; manifesting indifference to pleasure or pain.
ADJECTIVE:
• indifferent to pleasure or pain; uncomplaining in suffering, also STOIC
• seeming unaffected by pleasure or pain; impassive
• enduring pain and hardship without showing one's feelings or complaining
• suffering great difficulties without showing one's feelings
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• capitalize; a member of a school of philosophy founded by Zeno of Citium about 300 b.c. holding that the wise man should be free from passion, unmoved by joy or grief, and submissive to natural law
• suffering great difficulties without showing one\'s feelings

Words related to STOICAL

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How to use STOICAL in a sentence

• I am stoical by nature and my nerves are well seasoned, but I am not ashamed to say that I should be very sorry to be often subjected to that menace and that invitation.
• This stoical philosopher created in him a new intellectual life, and opened to him a new world of thought.
• A Stoical philosopher was trained, like a doctor of the Jewish Sandhedrim, in a certain intellectual pride.
• A year old now, the last six months had gone far toward maturing him, and it was the nature of his breed to be fearless and stoical.
• It has just been remarked that the Stoical philosophy doubted whether the mind can ascertain absolute truth.
• As a matter of fact, the miner expected some such stoical silence.
• Rouletabille would have believed himself stronger, more courageous, more stoical at least.
• Her heart was full of extreme sensibility, though her head contained a stoical firmness and the virile gift of resolution.
• But steady resolve and stoical self-denial, easy enough in theory, are often bitterly hard in practice.
• He leaned down, held his wrists to the flame, taking in stoical silence the burns which freed him.
• This presupposes, as a matter of course, that the latter undertakes the defence of the Stoical position.
• All sentiment was extracted, as quite out of place, and sublimity was made to give way to a more temperate and stoical standard.
• It was an act of tenderness, coming from his stoical nature, and the next instant he was gone, amid the smoke and the vapors and the darkness, toward the Indian army.
• Dear uncle mine, That were so stoical and so sublime That men might almost deem it was inhuman! And God made nothing more humane than you.
• Many a night De la Vega and his stoical guide slept beneath a cactus, or in the mocking bed of a creek.
• Even the more stoical father and grandmother were a little in her thoughts.
• The last and most elevated form of Stoical happiness was the satisfaction of contemplating the Universe and God.
• There is also in the Stoical system a recognition of duties to God, and of morality as based on piety.
• But in one important respect the Neo-Platonic teaching is at variance with Stoical doctrine.
• With a stoical exclamation of indifference, Oje finally followed them into the cabin and seated himself before the open fire.
• There are three kinds of satire, corresponding to as many different views of humanity and life, the Stoical, the Cynical, and the Epicurean.
• He received it with such an air of indifference and in such a stoical silence that General Custer had no hope his mission had succeeded.
• I have thought since that they resented with stoical pain his taking their white son from them.
• It was not in their tradition, as stoical for the woman as for the man, that they should kiss or embrace each other at such a moment.
• If you, good, grave sir, had been stoical enough to resist the upturned face, Lionel was not.
• A few foreign passengers are aboard, and they do not seem free from the contagion, though inclined to be more stoical than the Europeans.
• Living with Sallie and Julia is an awful strain on my stoical philosophy.
• A stately and stoical personage was Daoud, unlike shy black Achmet, who hid himself from observation so thoroughly that people in Hyndsville were not aware of his existence.
• Most of the passengers seemed careless which way they went, so long as they did but move, and they rolled through the Garden of England with the most stoical indifference.

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