Roget's Thesaurus

#826. Inexcitability

Nouns

inexcitability, imperturbability, inirritability; even temper, tranquil mind, dispassion; tolerance, patience, coolth [Coll.]. passiveness etc. (physical inertness) 172; hebetude, hebetation; impassibility etc. (insensibility) 823; stupefaction. coolness, calmness etc. adj.; composure, placidity, indisturbance, imperturbation, sang froid [Fr.], tranquility, serenity; quiet, quietude; peace of mind, mental calmness. staidness etc. adj.; gravity, sobriety, Quakerism; philosophy, equanimity, stoicism, command of temper; self-possession, self-control, self-command, self-restraint, ice water in one's veins; presence of mind. submission etc. 725; resignation; sufferance, supportance, endurance, longsufferance, forbearance; longanimity; fortitude; patience of Job, patience on a monument [Twelfth Night], patience 'sovereign o'er transmuted ill' [Johnson]; moderation; repression of feelings, subjugation of feeling; restraint etc. 751. tranquillization etc. (moderation) 174.

Verbs

be composed etc. adj.. laisser faire [Fr.], laisser aller [Fr.]; take things easily, take things as they come; take it easy, rub on, live and let live; take easily, take cooly, take in good part; aequam servare mentem [Lat.]. bear the brunt, bear well; go through, support, endure, brave, disregard. tolerate, suffer, stand, bide; abide, aby; bear with, put up with, take up with, abide with; acquiesce; submit etc. (yield) 725; submit with a good grace; resign oneself to, reconcile oneself to; brook, digest, eat, swallow, pocket, stomach. make light of, make the best of, make 'a virtue of necessity' [Chaucer]; put a good face on, keep one's countenance; check etc. 751; check oneself. compose, appease etc. (moderate); 174; propitiate; repress etc. (restrain) 751; render insensible etc. 823; overcome one's excitability, allay one's excitability, repress one's excitability etc. 825; master one's feelings. make oneself easy; make one's mind easy; set one's mind at ease, set one's mind at rest. calm down, cool down; gentle; thaw, grow cool. be borne, be endured; go down.

Adjectives

inexcitable, unexcitable; imperturbable; unsusceptible etc. (insensible) 823; unpassionate, dispassionate; cold-blooded, irritable; enduring etc. v.; stoical, Platonic, philosophic, staid, stayed; sober, sober minded; grave; sober as a judge, grave as a judge; sedate, demure, cool-headed. easy-going, peaceful, placid, calm; quiet as a mouse; tranquil, serene; cool as a cucumber, cool as a custard; undemonstrative. temperate etc. (moderate) 174; composed, collected; unexcited, unstirred, unruffled, undisturbed, unperturbed, unimpassioned; unoffended; unresisting. meek, tolerant; patient, patient as Job; submissive etc. 725; tame; content, resigned, chastened, subdued, lamblike; gentle as a lamb; suaviter in modo [Lat.]; mild as mothers milk; soft as peppermint; armed with patience, bearing with, clement, long-suffering.

Adverbs

like patience on a monument smiling at grief [Twelfth Night]; aequo animo [Lat.], in cold blood etc. 823; more in sorrow than in anger.

Interjections

patience!, and shuffle the cards.

Phrases

cool calm and collected," keep calm in the midst of a storm; adversity's sweet milk, philosophy [Romeo and Juliet]; mens aequa in arduis philosophia stemma non inspecite [Lat.] [Seneca]; quo me cumque rapit tempestas deferor hospes [Lat.] [Horace]; they also serve who only stand and wait [Milton].