as in stoic
not feeling or showing emotion
endured an unsatisfying marriage to a seemingly emotionless man
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Recent Examples of emotionless
Rather than portray science as something neutral or emotionless, participants infused empathy and feeling into their community engagement.
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Evelyn Valdez-Ward, The Conversation, 15 Jan. 2026
But Tiffany does bring up Donna’s name, saying she’s been emotionless and hasn’t been trying very hard to form connections.
—Tom Smyth, Vulture, 9 Jan. 2026
Čapek’s initially emotionless robots develop into conscious, thinking beings and then violently revolt against their human creators.
—David M. Ewalt, Scientific American, 16 Dec. 2025
An emotionless Hamlin sat in his car, wiping his face with a towel as Larson celebrated with his team.
—Jacob Lev, CNN Money, 3 Nov. 2025
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Evelyn Valdez-Ward, The Conversation, 15 Jan. 2026
But Tiffany does bring up Donna’s name, saying she’s been emotionless and hasn’t been trying very hard to form connections.
—Tom Smyth, Vulture, 9 Jan. 2026
Čapek’s initially emotionless robots develop into conscious, thinking beings and then violently revolt against their human creators.
—David M. Ewalt, Scientific American, 16 Dec. 2025
An emotionless Hamlin sat in his car, wiping his face with a towel as Larson celebrated with his team.
—Jacob Lev, CNN Money, 3 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for emotionless
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If Anže Kopitar, the Kings’ leading scorer on both of their Cup runs and in franchise history, was understated and hesitant to embrace the spotlight, Quick was outwardly stoic and practically shunned attention.—
Andrew Knoll,
Daily News,
13 Apr. 2026
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This movie is basically Sisu meets Fury Road as our stoic protagonist tries to take his entire home somewhere safe on a huge truck, fending off tanks, planes, and more.—
Brian Tallerico,
Vulture,
11 Apr. 2026
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While Clark was prone to long, unwieldy answers to questions, Meyer is pretty concise and unemotional in his responses.—
Barry M. Bloom,
Forbes.com,
22 Feb. 2026
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The reason why is that all of their star players behaved like Aztec alumnus Kawhi Leonard: unemotional, robotic freaks who do not care about anything other than basketball.—
Mark Zeigler,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
1 Feb. 2026
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“Emotionless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/emotionless. Accessed 18 Apr. 2026.
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