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as in stoic
not feeling or showing emotion
she remained impassive as the officers informed her of her son's death
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as in blank
not expressing any emotion
an impassive expression on the prisoner's face as his sentence was read
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Recent Examples of impassive
But the most spectacular aspect of Nuestra Tierra may be its use of drone camerawork, and the way Martel uses the unsettling stillness of a drone as the eye of an impassive god, looking down at the wrongs carried out by those on the ground.
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Vulture Staff, Vulture, 23 Sep. 2025
There are also plenty of promotional materials dating from the building’s launch, and in one video clip, Kurokawa sells the merits of the building to an impassive audience of smoking businessmen.
—Anthony Paletta, Curbed, 2 Sep. 2025
She is described, variously, as quirky, impassive, naive, vulgar, blithely optimistic.
—Judy Berman, Time, 20 Aug. 2025
The impassive march of content and the shuffling tread of death.
—Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2025
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Vulture Staff, Vulture, 23 Sep. 2025
There are also plenty of promotional materials dating from the building’s launch, and in one video clip, Kurokawa sells the merits of the building to an impassive audience of smoking businessmen.
—Anthony Paletta, Curbed, 2 Sep. 2025
She is described, variously, as quirky, impassive, naive, vulgar, blithely optimistic.
—Judy Berman, Time, 20 Aug. 2025
The impassive march of content and the shuffling tread of death.
—Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for impassive
Adjective
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The normally stoic Thibs let out a laugh.—
Paul Sullivan,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Jan. 2026
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No paintings of stoic elders in headdresses.—
Chadd Scott,
Forbes.com,
23 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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The company will also sell you a 10-pack of blank tapes!—
Brad Moon,
Forbes.com,
23 Jan. 2026
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Everything else -- the screens, the ink, the stacks of blank shirts -- is ready and waiting.—
Kelly Werthmann,
CBS News,
22 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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The routine calls for this chic, almost expressionless vibe — very different from a typical K-pop performance.—
Billboard Korea,
Billboard,
26 Nov. 2025
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Bale ran to the corner of the pitch, and, having been an expressionless bystander for much of the evening, shouted in ecstasy.—
Hua Hsu,
The New Yorker,
21 Nov. 2022
Adjective
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Video footage that circulated on social media shows the tourist lying motionless on the snowy ground, with the leopard sitting nearby.—
Jessie Yeung,
CNN Money,
27 Jan. 2026
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Footage shows a woman, who reportedly edged as close as 10 feet to the leopard, lying motionless in the snow as the predator hovered nearby after the mauling.—
Bonny Chu,
FOXNews.com,
27 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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The biological mother, an enigmatic teenage employee of the bar, has vanished.—
Chloe Schama,
Vogue,
24 Jan. 2026
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Oracles are by their nature enigmatic, obscure, gnomic, a mode that the aleatory perambulations of the Eureka engine would seem predisposed toward producing, but narrative also has a venerable tradition of being mechanically generated, despite the seeming complexity of plot.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
21 Jan. 2026
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“Impassive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impassive. Accessed 29 Jan. 2026.
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