stoical
adjUS /ˈstoʊ.ɪk.əl/ · UK /ˈstəʊ.ɪk.əl/
Etymology From Middle English stoicalle, from Latin stōicus + -al. By surface analysis, stoic + -al.
1
Enduring pain and hardship without showing feeling or complaint.
- "More and more, the shrewdest thinkers and artists are precocious archeologists of ... ruins-in-the-making, indignant or stoical diagnosticians of defeat, enigmatic choreographers of the complex spiritual movements useful for individual survival in an era or permanent apocalypse."1969 July 13, Lawrence M. Bensky, “Susan Sontag, Indignant, Stoical, Complex, Useful -- and Moral”, in The New York Times:
- Derived terms
- stoically, stoicalness, superstoical, unstoical