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Stolid vs Conventional - What's the difference?

stolid | conventional |

As adjectives the difference between stolid and conventional

is that stolid is having or revealing little emotion or sensibility while conventional is pertaining to a convention, as in following generally accepted principles, methods and behaviour.

As a noun conventional is

(finance) a conventional gilt-edged security, a kind of bond paying the holder a fixed cash payment (or coupon) every six months until maturity, at which point the holder receives the final payment and the return of the principal.

stolid

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Having or revealing little emotion or sensibility.
  • * 1857 , ", verse 2.
    • 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!
  • * 1898 , ,
    • They (Eloi) all failed to understand my gestures; some were simply stolid , some thought it was a jest and laughed at me.
  • * 1950 , Ray Bradbury, ,
    • With his symbolic helmet numbered 451 on his stolid head, and his eyes all orange flame with the thought of what came next, he flicked the igniter and the house jumped up in a gorging fire that burned the evening sky red and yellow and black.

    conventional

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Pertaining to a convention, as in following generally accepted principles, methods and behaviour.
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  • Ordinary, commonplace.
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  • * 1980 , (Carl Sagan), Cosmos: A Personal Voyage ,
    • The history of our study of our solar system shows us clearly that accepted and conventional ideas are often wrong, and that fundamental insights can arise from the most unexpected sources.
  • Banal]], trite, hackneyed, unoriginal or [[clichéd.

    • Synonyms

    * ("pertaining to a convention"): typical, canonical * ("banal"): stereotypical

    Antonyms

    * ("pertaining to a convention"): atypical, out of the ordinary, unconventional * ("ordinary"): imaginative

    Derived terms

    * conventionalism * conventionalist * conventionally * conventional mortgage loan * conventional war * conventional warfare * conventional weapon * conventional weaponry * conventional wisdom

    Related terms

    * convention

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (finance) A conventional gilt-edged security, a kind of bond paying the holder a fixed cash payment (or coupon) every six months until maturity, at which point the holder receives the final payment and the return of the principal.