Impassive
[ɪm'pæsɪv]
Definition
(adj.) 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' .
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Definition
(a.) Not susceptible of pain or suffering; apathetic; impassible; unmoved.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Impassible, insensible.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See IMPASSIONED]
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Examples
- She remained impassive on the same spot, silent and motionless, until the striking of the church clock roused her, and she turned away. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Gudrun sat on in her room, her face pale and impassive. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Laura is perfectly impassive, perfectly careless about the question of all others in which a woman's personal interests are most closely bound up. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- In which state of mind she kisses the stony lips, and quite believes that the impassive hand she chafes will revive a tender hand, if it revive ever. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- From that moment she was impassive, proud and cold—held Sissy at a distance—changed to her altogether. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Mrs Crich sat perfectly impassive, as if she had not heard. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Madame Defarge met the lifted eyebrows and forehead with a cold, impassive stare. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Follow me; I seek the everlasting ices of the north, where you will feel the misery of cold and frost, to which I am impassive. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Mr. James Harthouse might not have thought so much of it, but that he had wondered so long at her impassive face. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- He was impassive, abstract, like some dark suggestive presence, a gutter-presence. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Didn't her face really look like a clock dial--rather roundish and often pale, and impassive. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Mr Boffin, after a short interval of impassive discomfiture, opened the window and beckoned him to come in. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
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