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.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
impassive
adj 1: having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; not
easily aroused or excited; "her impassive remoteness";
"he remained impassive, showing neither interest in
nor concern for our plight"- Nordhoff & Hall; "a
silent stolid creature who took it all as a matter of
course"-Virginia Woolf; "her face showed nothing but
stolid indifference" [syn: stolid]
2: deliberately impassive in manner; "deadpan humor"; "his face
remained expressionless as the verdict was read" [syn: deadpan,
expressionless, poker-faced, unexpressive]
WordNet (r) 2.0
183 Moby Thesaurus words for "impassive":
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 II by Grady Ward, 1.0
deadpan, expressionless, poker-faced, stolid, unexpressive
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