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impassibleness |
impassion |
impassionable |
impassionate |
impassioned |
impassive
| impassively
| impassiveness
| impassivity
| impastation
| impaste
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impassive
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective impassive has 2 senses
- impassive(s = adj.all) stolid - having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; not easily aroused or excited; "her impassive remoteness"; "he remained impassive, showing neither interest in nor concern for our plight"; "a silent stolid creature who took it all as a matter of course"; "her face showed nothing but stolid indifference" Derived forms noun impassiveness1, noun impassivity1
- impassive(s = adj.all) deadpan, expressionless, poker-faced, unexpressive - deliberately impassive in manner; "deadpan humor"; "his face remained expressionless as the verdict was read" Derived form noun impassiveness1
CIDE DICTIONARY
impassive, a.
Not susceptible of pain or suffering; apathetic; impassible; unmoved. [1913 Webster]
"Impassive as the marble in the quarry."
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"On the impassive ice the lightings play."
OXFORD DICTIONARY
impassive, adj.
1 a deficient in or incapable of feeling emotion. b undisturbed by passion; serene.
2 without sensation.
3 not subject to suffering.
1 a deficient in or incapable of feeling emotion. b undisturbed by passion; serene.
2 without sensation.
3 not subject to suffering.
Derivative
impassively adv. impassiveness n. impassivity n.
THESAURUS
impassive
Olympian, affectless, aloof, anesthetized, apathetic, arctic, at rest, autistic, backward, bashful, blank, blunt, bored, bovine, callous, calm, careless, catatonic, chill, chilled, chilly, cloistered, cold, cold as charity, cold-blooded, coldhearted, collected, composed, constrained, contained, controlled, cool, deadpan, detached, discreet, disinterested, dispassionate, distant, drugged, dry, dull, dwindling, ebbing, emotionally dead, emotionless, empty, even-tempered, even-tenored, expressionless, fishy, forbidding, frigid, frosted, frosty, frozen, glassy, guarded, halcyon, hardened, heartless, heedless, hushed, icy, immovable, impassible, impersonal, imperturbable, inaccessible, incurious, indifferent, indurated, inexcitable, inexpressive, inirritable, insensible, insensitive, insentient, insouciant, insusceptible, introverted, isolated, lackadaisical, listless, matter-of-fact, mindless, modest, moldering, nonchalant, nonemotional, objective, obtuse, offish, out of touch, pacific, passionless, patient, peaceable, peaceful, phlegmatic, placid, poker-faced, quiescent, quiet, regardless, remote, removed, reposeful, reposing, repressed, reserved, restful, resting, restrained, reticent, retiring, secluded, self-absorbed, sequestered, sequestrated, serene, sheltered, shrinking, smooth, soulless, spiritless, standoff, standoffish, steady, still, still as death, stillish, stilly, stoic, stoical, stolid, stony, subdued, subsiding, suppressed, taciturn, tranquil, unaffable, unaffectionate, unagitated, unapproachable, uncaring, unconcerned, uncongenial, undemonstrative, undisturbable, undisturbed, unemotional, unexcitable, unexpansive, unexpressive, unfeeling, unflappable, ungenial, unimpassioned, unimpressible, unimpressionable, uninquiring, uninterested, uninvolved, unirritable, unloving, unmindful, unmoved, unnervous, unpassionate, unperturbed, unresponding, unresponsive, unruffled, unstirring, unsusceptible, unsympathetic, untouchable, untroubled, vacant, waning, withdrawn, woodenROGET THESAURUS
impassive
Insensibility
N insensibility, insensibleness, moral insensibility, inertness, inertia, vis inertiae, impassibility, impassibleness, inappetency, apathy, phlegm, dullness, hebetude, supineness, lukewarmness, cold fit, cold blood, cold heart, coldness, coolness, frigidity, sang froid, stoicism, imperturbation, nonchalance, unconcern, dry eyes, insouciance, recklessness, callousness, heart of stone, stock and stone, marble, deadness, torpor, torpidity, obstupefaction, lethargy, coma, trance, vegetative state, sleep, suspended animation, stupor, stupefaction, paralysis, palsy, numbness, neutrality, quietism, vegetation, insensible, unconscious, impassive, impassible, blind to, deaf to, dead to, unsusceptible, insusceptible, unimpressionable, unimpressible, passionless, spiritless, heartless, soulless, unfeeling, unmoral, apathetic, leuco-, phlegmatic, dull, frigid, cold blooded, cold hearted, cold as charity, flat, maudlin, obtuse, inert, supine, sluggish, torpid, torpedinous, torporific, sleepy, languid, half-hearted, tame, numbed, comatose, anaesthetic, stupefied, chloroformed, drugged, stoned, palsy-stricken, indifferent, lukewarm, careless, mindless, regardless, inattentive, neglectful, disregarding, unconcerned, nonchalant, pococurante, insouciant, sans souci, unambitious, unaffected, unruffled, unimpressed, uninspired, unexcited, unmoved, unstirred, untouched, unshocked, unstruck, unblushing, unanimated, vegetative, callous, thick-skinned, hard-nosed, pachydermatous, impervious, hardened, inured, casehardened, steeled against, proof against, imperturbable, unfelt, insensibly, aequo animo, without being moved, without being touched, without being impressed, in cold blood, with dry eyes, with withers unwrung, never mind, macht nichts, it is of no consequence, it cannot be helped, nothing coming amiss, it is all the same to, it is all one to.Incuriosity
N incuriosity, incuriousness, insouciance, indifference, lack of interest, disinterest, boredom, ennui (weariness), satiety, foreknowledge (foresight), incurious, uninquisitive, indifferent, impassive, uninterested, detached, aloof.
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