Clues for the word "STOIC"
We've had 162 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 328 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on December 09, 2025.
Definition of stoic
- n. - 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.
- n. - Hence, a person not easily excited; an apathetic person; one who is apparently or professedly indifferent to pleasure or pain.
- n. - Alt. of Stoical
Referring Clues
- Uncomplaining
- Zeno follower
- Impassive
- Zeno was one
- Like Zeno
- Zeno, notably
- One who grins and bears it
- Stiff-upper-lip type
- Zeno, for one
- Hardly the screaming type
- Follower of Zeno
- Hard to get to
- Bite-the-bullet type
- Far from demonstrative
- Indifferent to pleasure or pain
- Bullet-biting type
- One who never cries "Ow!"
- Phlegmatic
- One who bites the bullet
- Showing no emotion
- Immovable type
- Unemotional
- Unemotional to a fault
- Devoid of emotion
- Putting on a poker face
- Unflinching
- Imperturbable
- Uncomplaining in the face of adversity
- Brutus, philosophically
- One who is unmoved by joy or grief
- Betraying no emotion
- Unmovable
- Stiff-upper-lip sort
- Giving nothing away, in a way
- Unmoved
- Detached type
- Showing no pain
- Not very excitable
- Undemonstrative to the max
- Seneca, for one
- Imperturbable one
- Unruffled
- Dispassionate person
- Showing little emotion
- Hardly emotional
- Hardly the emotional type
- Follower of the philosopher Epictetus
- Having a stiff upper lip
- Hard to move
- Not overly emotional
- Not moved much
- Not reacting to pain, say
- Unexcitable
- Displaying no emotion
- Hard to stir
- Like Spock
- Uncomplaining sort
- Epictetus, for one
- Unemotional sort
- Student of Zeno
- Unemo-tional
- Indifferent individual
- Zeno, e.g.
- Very cool
- Seemingly indifferent person
- Dispassionate
- Long-suffering
- Stone-faced
- Emotionless
- Cicero, e.g.
- Vulcan in demeanor
- Unemotive
- Unlikely to come unglued
- Hardboiled
- Unfeeling
- Unflinching in the face of pain, say
- Not very emotional
- Hard to startle
- Not at all emotional
- Zenophile?
- Unflappable
- Indifferent
- Cool-headed philosopher
- Hard to arouse
- Undemonstrative sort
- Unaffected by passion
- One accepting of his lot
- Emotion-hiding sort
- Uncomplaining type
- Not easily moved
- Poker-faced
- Impassive one
- Not the movable type
- Impassive type
- Unemotional one
- Passionless
- Apathetic
- Someone seemingly indifferent to pleasure or pain
- Good man in charge, with love at heart, makes a good bearer
- Reduced sick wards closed for patient
- Upright Scot possibly out to be calm and unemotional
- Drunken sot, I see, showing no emotion
- One resigned when about to get endlessly ill
- One patient under misfortune
- One involved in outrageous cost was philosophical
- Cool Greek stores with ices reduced by 50%
- Not one to complain of Daedalus to Icarus
- One in bed's turned over, not easily excited
- One who philosophically objects to beef
- Hard-to-read type
- One tucked in bed's getting up - might he seem cold?
- Far from emotional
- Marcus Aurelius was one
- Uninclined to complain
- Uncomplaining disciple
- One is long-suffering to go in thus
- Long-suffering person reveals cot is broken
- Seeming unaffected by pleasure or pain
- Someone who turns to ice and grits his teeth?
- Zeno, say, coming from Cyprus to Icaria
- Endless criticism involving old philosopher
- One showing endurance during adversity, coming from Barbados to Iceland
- Impassive, one cutting incomplete pile of cards after a deal
- Not prone to emotional displays
- One who's indiferent to pain turns to ice? Not entirely
- Indifferent to hardship
- Unlikely to become overwrought
- Hard to be moved
- Drunken sot, I see, showing little emotion
- Apathetic-looking
- Stony type
- One philosophical about the cost of straying out of line?
- Sort with a stiff upper lip
- Showing no emotion but some gusto, I see
- Seneca, philosophically
- Hard to read, facially
- Epictetus, e.g.
- Unflappable sort
- Calm about the terrible cost of getting out of line
- Philosophical line in cost adjustment
- Far from passionate
- Imperturbable person
- Philosophical about the calamitous cost when one is taken in
- Unlikely to explode?
- Keeping a stiff upper lip
- Unlikely to crack a smile, say
- Hard to rattle
- Unemotional drunken sot, I see
- Tough to titillate
- Dispassionate type
- Like Vulcans, typically
- Showing not even a hint of emotion
- Hard-to-move type
- Adherent of a philosophy of wisdom, justice, courage and moderation
- Stony-faced
- Uncomplaining, say
- Not showing emotion
- Marcus Aurelius, for one
- Philosophically resigned to the awful cost of holding the line?
- Immovable
- Showing no fear, maybe
- Not easily shaken
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 09, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 27, 2025
- Daily American - August 17, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - May 19, 2025
- LA Times - March 11, 2025
- Mirror Mini - January 25, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 08, 2025
- New York Times - December 31, 2024
- USA Today - December 19, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - November 24, 2024
- LA Times - October 16, 2024
- LA Times - September 18, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - September 01, 2024
- USA Today - August 26, 2024
- Daily American - July 20, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - May 30, 2024
- Daily American - May 27, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - March 13, 2024
- LA Times - November 24, 2023
- LA Times - September 12, 2023
- USA Today - September 04, 2023
- Daily American - August 17, 2023
- New York Times - August 07, 2023
- New York Times - June 18, 2023
- New York Times - May 22, 2023
- LA Times - April 28, 2023
- New York Times - March 28, 2023
- New York Times - March 27, 2023
- LA Times - February 27, 2023
- New York Times - January 09, 2023
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