About The Word Impersonal
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Impersonal
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What's The Definition Of Impersonal?
[adj] having no personal preference; "impersonal criticism"; "a neutral observer"
[adj] not relating to or responsive to individual persons; "an impersonal corporation"; "an impersonal remark" Synonyms | Synonyms for Impersonal: neutral | nonpersonal | nonsubjective | objective Related Terms | Find terms related to Impersonal: abstract | aloof | backward | bashful | blank | candid | chilled | chilly | cold | cold-blooded | colorless | constrained | conventionalized | cool | detached | discreet | disinterested | dispassionate | distant | emotionless | equal | equitable | evenhanded | expressionless | external | extraneous | extraorganismal | extrinsic | fair | forbidding | foreign | formal | formalist | formalistic | formulary | frigid | frosty | guarded | icy | impartial | impassive | inaccessible | indifferent | introverted | just | legalistic | lofty | matter-of-fact | mechanical | modest | neutral | nominal | nonsubjective | objective | offish | Olympian | outlying | outside | outward | pedantic | poker-faced | prim | remote | removed | repressed | reserved | restrained | reticent | retiring | rigid | selfless | shrinking | standoff | standoffish | stiff | strait-laced | stuffy | stylized | subdued | superficial | suppressed | surface | unaffable | unapproachable | unbiased | uncolored | uncongenial | undazzled | undemonstrative | unexpansive | unfriendly | ungenial | unimpassioned | uninfluenced | unjaundiced | unprejudiced | unprepossessed | unselfish | unswayed | withdrawn | wooden See Also | Impersonal In Webster's Dictionary \Im*per"son*al\, a. [L. impersonalis; pref. im- not +
personalis personal: cf. F. impersonnel. See {Personal}.]
Not personal; not representing a person; not having
personality.
An almighty but impersonal power, called Fate. --Sir J.
Stephen.
{Impersonal verb} (Gram.), a verb used with an indeterminate
subject, commonly, in English, with the impersonal pronoun
it; as, it rains; it snows; methinks (it seems to me).
Many verbs which are not strictly impersonal are often
used impersonally; as, it goes well with him.
\Im*per"son*al\, n. That which wants personality; specifically (Gram.), an impersonal verb. |
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