Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Devoid of or not subject to emotion.
- adj. Revealing no emotion; expressionless.
- adj. Archaic Incapable of physical sensation.
- adj. Motionless; still.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Not susceptible of pain or suffering; insensible; impassible.
- Not showing sensibility or emotion; unmoved; apathetic: as, an impassive manner.
Wiktionary
- adj. Having, or revealing, no emotion.
- adj. Still or motionless.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Not susceptible of pain or suffering; apathetic; impassible; unmoved.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; not easily aroused or excited
- adj. deliberately impassive in manner
Etymologies
- in-1 + passive, suffering (obsolete). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“To visitation of the impassive air," is a sonorous verse; but it is not Dante's verse, unless _all detached_ means _on every side is open to visitation_, and _impassive air_ means”
“Ella avoided looking at him and kept her expression impassive as she served the dewberry cobbler and cream.”
“Choudhury forced herself to keep her expression impassive and nonthreatening.”
“He gazed out from the screen, his expression impassive as always.”
“Her gaze fastened on the lean-faced man who commanded the group, his expression impassive and aloof.”
“Warrick sawed the steering wheel right and left as he dodged between cars, his expression impassive.”
“Ellie straightened her spine, her expression impassive.”
“Then she lifted her hands and began clapping, her expression impassive.”
““I would,” Lyon answered, keeping his expression impassive.”
“She let him draw her up to face them, standing with her head held proudly, her expression impassive, but the admiral was sure that for a second he had glimpsed surprised recognition.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘impassive’.
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GRE 2014
abase, abate, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abjure, abortive, abound, abrasive, abreast, abridge and 1577 more...
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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7thGradeWords
horde, doggedly, retina, frail, jovial, insidious, injudicious, brazen, tentative, hortle, adaver, benign and 91 more...
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501
Classic
mete, ire, bane, bilk, boor, elan, ado, toil, onus, aberration, abstruse, anomaly and 401 more...
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GRE Barron's 800
zealot, wistful, welter, wary, whimsical, warranted, vortex, vivisection, volatile, vitiate, viscous, visage and 787 more...
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501
Classic
abhor, mirth, obtuse, iota, vex, irk, teem, pith, moot, mete, ire, bane and 401 more...
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2nd part
prelude, ample, escalate, prototype, accession, acquisition, archives, zealot, indict, verdict, intimidating, timid and 454 more...
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501
Classic
aberration, abstruse, anomaly, assiduous, august, banal, boisterous, dulcet, epitome, impudent, insolent, mellifluous and 401 more...
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501
Classic
aberration, abstruse, anomaly, assiduous, august, banal, boisterous, dulcet, epitome, impudent, insolent, mellifluous and 401 more...
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March 2012
panache, evanescent, erogenous, vestibule, malfeasance, lacuna, blithering, incubate, breech, tabernacle, pearly, upholstery and 79 more...
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man gre
abase, abeyance, abreast, abscission, abscond, abyss, accede, accretion, acerbic, acidulous, acumen, adulterate and 483 more...
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GRE
GRE words from Princeton Review guide, ETS GRE Book from 2010 (for revised test), New Yorker/NY Times articles.
sycophant, obsequious, volubility, equanimity, enervate, effrontery, impertinent, platitude, impudence, quiescent, propitiate, equivocate and 124 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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gre2
aberrant, aberration, aboveboard, abrasive, abstemious, acme, admonish, affable, affluent, alacrity, allegory, alleviate and 1834 more...
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GRE list #4
runic, sagacious, salacious, salient, salutary, sanctimony, sanguine, satiate, saturnine, seine, seminal, sidereal and 103 more...
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Hit Parade GRE
Princeton Review words
abscond, aberrant, alacrity, anomaly, approbation, arduous, assuage, audacious, austere, axiomatic, canonical, capricious and 287 more...
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