Dictionary Definition
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]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- /ɪmˈpæsɪv/, /Im"p
Synonyms, Antonyms 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