impassive

impassive
Synonyms and related words:
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unresponsive, unruffled, unstirring, unsusceptible, unsympathetic, untouchable, untroubled, vacant, waning, withdrawn, wooden

Moby Thesaurus. . 1996.

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  • impassive — impassive, stoic, phlegmatic, apathetic, stolid are comparable when they mean slightly if at all responsive to something that might be expected to excite emotion or interest or to produce a sensation. The distinctions to be drawn between these… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • Impassive — Im*pas sive, a. Not susceptible of pain or suffering; apathetic; impassible; unmoved. [1913 Webster] Impassive as the marble in the quarry. De Quincey. [1913 Webster] On the impassive ice the lightings play. Pope. {Im*pas sive*ly}, adv. {Im*pas… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • impassive — [im pas′iv] adj. [< IN 2 + PASSIVE] 1. not feeling pain; not liable to suffering; insensible 2. not feeling or showing emotion; placid; calm impassively [im΄pə siv′ə tē] adv. impassivity [im΄pa siv′i tē] n. impassiveness …   English World dictionary

  • impassive — index callous, controlled (restrained), dispassionate, impervious, inexpressive, inscrutable, insusceptible ( …   Law dictionary

  • impassive — (adj.) 1660s, not feeling pain, from assimilated form of in not, opposite of (see IN (Cf. in ) (1)) + PASSIVE (Cf. passive). Meaning void of emotions is from 1690s. Related: Impassively; impassiveness (1640s) …   Etymology dictionary

  • impassive — [adj] aloof, cool apathetic, callous, cold, cold blooded*, collected, composed, dispassionate, dry, emotionless, hardened, heartless, imperturbable, indifferent, indurated, inexcitable, inexpressive, inscrutable, insensible, insusceptible, matter …   New thesaurus

  • impassive — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ not feeling or showing emotion. DERIVATIVES impassively adverb impassiveness noun impassivity noun …   English terms dictionary

  • impassive — [[t]ɪmpæ̱sɪv[/t]] ADJ GRADED If someone is impassive or their face is impassive, they are not showing any emotion. [WRITTEN] He searched Hill s impassive face for some indication that he understood... As the foreman of the jury announced the… …   English dictionary

  • impassive — adjective Date: 1605 1. a. archaic unsusceptible to pain b. unsusceptible to physical feeling ; insensible c. unsusceptible to or destitute of emotion ; apathetic 2. giving no sign of feeling or emotion ; expressionless • …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • impassive — adj. VERBS ▪ be, sit, stand ▪ become ▪ remain ADVERB ▪ completely, quite …   Collocations dictionary

  • impassive — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. stolid, phlegmatic, stoical, calm, undemonstrative. See insensibility. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. indifferent, apathetic, stoic, stolid, phlegmatic, callous, sedate, insensitive, emotionless; see… …   English dictionary for students

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