impassive
Meanings
Adjective Satellite
- having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; not easily aroused or excited; ; - Nordhoff & Hall; -Virginia Woolf
- "her impassive remoteness"
- "he remained impassive, showing neither interest in nor concern for our plight"
- deliberately impassive in manner
Adj
- Having, or revealing, no emotion.
- Still or motionless.
Origin / Etymology
From im- (prefix meaning ‘not’) + passive (“which is, or is capable of being, acted on; (obsolete) which suffers, or may suffer, pain, death, etc.”, adjective).
Synonyms
adiaphroistic, alexithymic, apathetic, apathistical, at rest, blasé, clinical, cold-blooded, cold-hearted, cool, dead inside, deadpan, dispassionate, dull, emotionless, enervated, expressionless, gallionic, halfhearted, heartless, immovable, impassible, impassive, inanimate, indifferent, ineffervescible, inert, insensible, insouciant, jaded, lackadaisical, languid, languorous, Laodicean, lethargic, lifeless, listless, lotophagous, lukewarm, mopey, motionless, nonchalant, nonemotional, nonfeeling, nonpassionate, nonplussed, nonsentimental, phlegmatic, pococurante, poker-faced, sedent, sedentary, shiftless, spiritless, stationary, still, stock-still, stolid, supine, tepid, torpedinous, torpid, unaroused, uncaring, unconcerned, unemotional, unenthusiastic, unexpressive, unfeeling, unimpressible, uninterested, unlively, unmovable, unmoved, unmoving, unpassionate, unsentimental, untouched, unzealous, world-weary
Scrabble Score: 16
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