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impassive
adjective as in aloof, cool
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- apathetic
- callous
- cold
- cold-blooded
- collected
- composed
- dispassionate
- dry
- hardened
- heartless
- imperturbable
- indifferent
- indurated
- inexcitable
- inexpressive
- inscrutable
- insensible
- insusceptible
- nonchalant
- passionless
- phlegmatic
- poker-faced
- reserved
- sedate
- self-contained
- spiritless
- stoical
- unconcerned
- unexcitable
- unfeeling
- unimpressible
- unmoved
- wooden
Example Sentences
You would still never describe Pickford as being impassive, however, and Green feels that emotion is still a big part of his make-up.
Both Michael and Kerry Ives remained impassive as the prosecutor reminded the court of how they made their own grandson suffer.
The city that Tom Bradley has led with impassive aplomb for 17 years is frayed at the edges, with aging sewers and inadequate housing stock.
“His skull was completely split … all in pieces,” she said, her face impassive.
Rocky declined to testify in his own defense and sat largely impassive during the trial, brightening only when Rihanna or his kids showed up in the gallery.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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