Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Without impression or effect; unimpressible.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having the quality of not being impressed or affected; not susceptible.
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- adjective Having the quality of not being
impressed oraffected ; notsusceptible .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Somewhere in his heart, that was mostly impressionless india-rubber, there had proved to be a healthy, flesh-and-blood spot after all.
Winding Paths Gertrude Page 1897
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If he made the acquaintance of the young men at the next table, he found them to be young men of his own sort -- agreeable young boys just from Columbia and Harvard, who were painting impressionless pictures for the love of Art for Art's sake, and living very comfortably on their paternal allowances.
Jersey Street and Jersey Lane Urban and Suburban Sketches Kenneth [Illustrator] Frazier 1875
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Come, as alone Mind can be the monarch and the seer, shining through the home it tenants, -- a pure, impressionless, sublime intelligence!
Zanoni Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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He seated himself by me and read; but the words, although spoken by his manly, firm voice, passed at this time impressionless over my inward sense.
The Home Fredrika Bremer 1833
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"True, philosopher, but would you call the work of these padres impressionless, when it has permeated all California?
The Lure of San Francisco A Romance Amid Old Landmarks Mabel Thayer Gray
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