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Definition of Impassive
1. Adjective. Having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; not easily aroused or excited. "Her face showed nothing but stolid indifference"
Similar to: Unemotional
Derivative terms: Impassiveness, Impassivity, Stolidity, Stolidity, Stolidness
2. Adjective. Deliberately impassive in manner. "His face remained expressionless as the verdict was read"
Similar to: Incommunicative, Uncommunicative
Derivative terms: Impassiveness
Definition of Impassive
1. a. Not susceptible of pain or suffering; apathetic; impassible; unmoved.
Definition of Impassive
1. Adjective. Having, or revealing, no emotion. ¹
2. Adjective. Still or motionless. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Impassive
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Impassive
| impastation impastations impaste impasted impastes impasting impasto impastoed impastos |
Literary usage of Impassive
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"In the first place he does not admit the propriety of a writer's putting himself
into his work; the work muet be objective, impersonal, impassive. ..."
2. Some Colonial Homesteads and Their Stories by Marion Harland (1897)
"From tarnished frames impassive faces looked down on us as once on them, changing
not for their mirth or for our sighing. The silver mirror is brought out ..."
3. Memoirs of the War of the French in Spain by Albert Jean Michel Rocca, Maria Callcott (1815)
"mained impassive in the midst of the tu- mult,but the moment his master had ceased
to blow, he pawed the ground with impatience, and hastened to join his ..."
4. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1851)
"whelm the most impassive of reviewers with scarcely abating vehemence, is so
large, that we can scarcely do more than acknowledge, and set down the titles ..."
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