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Unfeeling vs Stolid - What's the difference?

unfeeling | stolid |

As adjectives the difference between unfeeling and stolid

is that unfeeling is without emotion or sympathy while stolid is having or revealing little emotion or sensibility.

unfeeling

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Without emotion or sympathy

    • Synonyms

    * emotionless * stony * uncaring

    Antonyms

    * sympathetic

    Derived terms

    * unfeelingly * unfeelingness

    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.