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Word of the Day for Saturday, May 16, 2009stolid \STOL-id\, adjective: Having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; not easily excited. Normally stolid, she occasionally joined in the frequent applause and smiled along with the laughter at the high-spirited session. The inherent irrationality of markets was first demonstrated in the 17th century, when the normally stolid Dutch population was seized by a tulip craze that caused the people to pay insane prices for a single bulb. Ulster Protestants are a slow, stolid, quiet, decent, law-abiding people, unstylish and unfashionable. Stolid derives from Latin stolidus, "unmoving, stupid." | |||||||||
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