impassive
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
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: {impassive}, {stolid}]
2: deliberately impassive in manner; "deadpan humor"; "his face
remained expressionless as the verdict was read" [syn:
{deadpan}, {expressionless}, {impassive}, {poker-faced},
{unexpressive}]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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
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