Stolid vs Serene - What's the difference?
stolid | serene |
Having or revealing little emotion or sensibility.
* 1857 , ", verse 2.
* 1898 , ,
* 1950 , Ray Bradbury, ,
Peaceful, calm, unruffled.
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Without worry or anxiety; unaffected by disturbance.
(lb) fair and unclouded (as of the sky); clear; unobscured.
* (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
* (Thomas Gray) (1716-1771)
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(poetic) Serenity; clearness; calmness.
* Southey
* Young
Evening air; night chill.
* Ben Jonson
As an adjective stolid
is having or revealing little emotion or sensibility.As a verb serene is
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English
Adjective
(er)- 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!
- They (Eloi) all failed to understand my gestures; some were simply stolid , some thought it was a jest and laughed at me.
- 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.
serene
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) .Adjective
(en-adj)- Serene , smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. The clear light of the bright autumn morning had no terrors for youth and health like hers.
- The moon serene in glory mounts the sky.
- Full many a gem of purest ray serene / The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear.
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Verb
(seren)- Heaven and earth, as if contending, vie / To raise his being, and serene his soul. — Thomson.
Noun
(en noun)- the serene of heaven
- To their master is denied / To share their sweet serene .
- Some serene blast me.