as in stoic
not feeling or showing emotion
years of living behind bars had rendered him impassible
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Recent Examples of impassible
It’s been virtually cut off from the outside world because of impassible roads.
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Andy Kalmowitz / Jalopnik, Quartz, 30 Sep. 2024
Back in 2022, when the Lerner family tried to do just that, the media dispute proved an impassible roadblock, Sportico previously reported.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 3 Sep. 2019
The accident renewed the debate over crossing safety and led to some experimentation in placing impassible barriers at crossings instead of gates.
1950: An aardvark brought to the Brookfield Zoo from South Africa became only the second creature of its kind held in captivity in the United States.
—Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 23 Feb. 2025
The set-up has grown increasingly hostile over time, and became an impassible roadblock when the Lerner family tried to sell the Nationals back in 2022.
—Scott Soshnick, Sportico.com, 4 Mar. 2025
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Andy Kalmowitz / Jalopnik, Quartz, 30 Sep. 2024
Back in 2022, when the Lerner family tried to do just that, the media dispute proved an impassible roadblock, Sportico previously reported.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 3 Sep. 2019
The accident renewed the debate over crossing safety and led to some experimentation in placing impassible barriers at crossings instead of gates.
1950: An aardvark brought to the Brookfield Zoo from South Africa became only the second creature of its kind held in captivity in the United States.
—Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 23 Feb. 2025
The set-up has grown increasingly hostile over time, and became an impassible roadblock when the Lerner family tried to sell the Nationals back in 2022.
—Scott Soshnick, Sportico.com, 4 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for impassible
Adjective
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Guthrie, her fiancé, took to casually goading Loeb about how Twysden now spurned him, while Loeb accepted the insults with a stoic passivity, mooning over Twysden, the others felt, like a lovesick puppy.—
Tony Perrottet,
Smithsonian Magazine,
30 June 2025
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His Superman is also very passionate and vocal, breaking from the traditionally stoic hero.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
28 June 2025
Adjective
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Their faces were impassive, but their eyes had lids and lashes that blinked.—
Jhumpa Lahiri,
New Yorker,
30 June 2025
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Williams, looking scruffy in tan prison scrubs, was impassive throughout the proceedings — glancing back at his family only once before being led away.—
Rocco Parascandola,
New York Daily News,
12 June 2025
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“Impassible.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impassible. Accessed 12 Jul. 2025.
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