English Explanatory Dictionary

unemotional

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Showing little or no feeling.
  2. Reasoned and objective, involving reason or intellect rather than feelings.

Pronunciation

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-unemotional.wav

Word forms

unemotional more unemotional most unemotional

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs Proto-Italic *eks Latin ex Latin ex- Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁-der. Proto-Italic *moweō Latin moveō Latin ēmoveō Vulgar Latin *exmovēre Old French esmovoir Middle French esmouvoir Middle French emotionbor. English emotion Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al English -al English emotional English unemotional From un- + emotional.

Synonyms

clinical dispassionate alexithymic apathistical dull phlegmatic cold-blooded cold-hearted dead inside emotionless immovable impassible impassive insensible nonemotional nonfeeling nonpassionate nonsentimental stolid unemotional unfeeling unmovable unpassionate unsentimental objective

Antonyms

passionate
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