stoic Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a member of the ancient Greek school of philosophy founded by Zeno
    • a Stoic achieves happiness by submission to destiny
  2. noun someone who is seemingly indifferent to emotions
    unemotional person.
  3. adjective satellite seeming unaffected by pleasure or pain; impassive
    stoical.
    • stoic courage
    • stoic patience
    • a stoical sufferer
  4. adjective pertaining to Stoicism or its followers

WordNet

Sto"ic noun
Etymology
L. stoicus, Gr. , fr. , adj., literally, of or pertaining to a colonnade, from a roofed colonnade, a porch, especially, a porch in Athens where Zeno and his successors taught.
Definitions
  1. A disciple of the philosopher Zeno; one of a Greek sect which held that men should be free from passion, unmoved by joy or grief, and should submit without complaint to unavoidable necessity, by which all things are governed.
  2. Hence, a person not easily excited; an apathetic person; one who is apparently or professedly indifferent to pleasure or pain.
    A Stoic of the woods, a man without a tear. Campbell.
Sto"ic, Sto"ic*al adjective (Also<
  • Stoic
  • Stoical
)
Etymology
L. stoicus, Gr. : cf. F. stoïque. See Stoic, n.
Definitions
  1. Of or pertaining to the Stoics; resembling the Stoics or their doctrines.
  2. Not affected by passion; manifesting indifference to pleasure or pain. -- Sto"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Sto"ic*al*ness, n.

Webster 1913