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impassive
Overview of adj impassive
The adj impassive has 2 senses (no senses from tagged texts)
1. impassive, stolid -- (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")
2. deadpan, expressionless, impassive, poker-faced, unexpressive -- (deliberately impassive in manner; "deadpan humor"; "his face remained expressionless as the verdict was read")
Grep of noun impassive
impassiveness
Antonyms of adj impassive
2 senses of impassive
Sense 1
impassive, stolid
INDIRECT (VIA unemotional) -> emotional
Sense 2
deadpan, expressionless, impassive, poker-faced, unexpressive
INDIRECT (VIA uncommunicative) -> communicative, communicatory
Similarity of adj impassive
2 senses of impassive
Sense 1
impassive, stolid
=> unemotional (vs. emotional)
Sense 2
deadpan, expressionless, impassive, poker-faced, unexpressive
=> uncommunicative (vs. communicative), incommunicative
Pertainyms of adj impassive
Attributes of adj impassive
Domain of adj impassive
Domain Terms of adj impassive
Familiarity of adj impassive
impassive used as an adjective is rare (polysemy count =2)
Grep of adj impassive
impassive
Grep of adv impassive
impassively
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