Entry Word: impassive

Function: adjective

Meaning: 1 not feeling or showing emotion <she remained impassive as they told her the bad news>

Synonyms apathetic, cold-blooded, phlegmatic, stoic (or stoical), stolid, undemonstrative, unemotional

Related Words cold, cool, dispassionate, unmoved; calm, collected, composed; imperturable, unflappable; reserved, reticent, taciturn; blank, deadpan, dry, empty, expressionless, inexpressive, vacant, wooden; enigmatic (also enigmatical), impenetrable, inscrutable; aloof, detached, unconcerned, unsentimental; impersonal, objective, unresponsive; hardhearted, pitiless, unfeeling; inconsiderate, thoughtless

Near Antonyms blazing, burning, fiery, flaming, glowing, red-hot; ardent, enthusiastic, gung ho, zealous; gushing, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, sentimental; dramatic, histrionic, melodramatic; compassionate, responsive, sympathetic; reactive, sensitive

Antonyms demonstrative, emotional, fervent, fervid, hot-blooded, impassioned, passionate

2 not expressing any emotion <an impassive expression on the prisonerʼs face as his sentence was read> — see blank 1