English Explanatory Dictionary

impassive

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Having, or revealing, no emotion.
  2. Still or motionless.

Pronunciation

/ɪmˈpæsɪv/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-impassive.wav

Word forms

impassive more impassive most impassive

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

apathetic phlegmatic unemotional alexithymic apathistical clinical dull cold-blooded cold-hearted dead inside dispassionate emotionless immovable impassible impassive insensible nonemotional nonfeeling nonpassionate nonsentimental stolid unfeeling unmovable unpassionate unsentimental adiaphroistic blasé blithe deaf cool shiftless enervated gallionic halfhearted heartless ineffervescible insouciant indifferent jaded languid languorous Laodicean lethargic listless lackadaisical lotophagous lukewarm meh mopey nonchalant nonplussed otiose pococurante spiritless supine tepid torpid torpedinous unaroused uncaring

Related words

passive impassible impatient

Derived words

impassively impassiveness impassivity unimpassive
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