stoical

From Middle English stoicalle, from Latin stōicus +‎ -al.^[1] By surface analysis, stoic +‎ -al.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈstoʊ.ɪk.əl/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈstəʊ.ɪk.əl/

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stoical (comparative more stoical, superlative most stoical)

1. Enduring pain and hardship without showing feeling or complaint.
   • 1969 July 13, Lawrence M. Bensky, “Susan Sontag, Indignant, Stoical, Complex, Useful -- and Moral”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     "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."

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