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Impassive

Impassive Meaning & Definition
Impassive Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Impassive?

[adj] deliberately impassive in manner; "deadpan humor"; "his face remained expressionless as the verdict was read"
[adj] 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"- Nordhoff & Hall; "a silent stolid creature who took it all as a matter of course"-Virginia Woolf; "her face showed nothing but stolid indifference"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Impassive: deadpan | expressionless | incommunicative | poker-faced | stolid | uncommunicative | unemotional | unexpressive

Related Terms | Find terms related to Impassive: 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 | Olympian | 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 | wooden

See Also |

Impassive In Webster's Dictionary

\Im*pas"sive\, a. Not susceptible of pain or suffering; apathetic; impassible; unmoved. Impassive as the marble in the quarry. --De Quincey. On the impassive ice the lightings play. --Pope. -- {Im*pas"sive*ly}, adv. -- {Im*pas"sive*ness}, n.

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