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impassive
Synonyms and Antonyms of impassive
- she remained impassive as the officers informed her of her son's death
cold, cool, dispassionate, unmoved
bland, blank, deadpan, dry, empty, expressionless, inexpressive, stone-faced, straight-faced, vacant, wooden
enigmatic (also enigmatical), impenetrable, inscrutable
aloof, bloodless, detached, indifferent, insensible, unconcerned, unsentimental
impersonal, objective, unresponsive
- an impassive expression on the prisonerʼs face as his sentence was read
engaged, interested, responsive
active, alive, animated, bright, busy, dynamic, effervescent, energetic, expansive, exuberant, lively, vivacious
eloquent, revealing, revelatory
gestic, gesticulant, gesticulative, gesticulatory, gestural
emotional, melodramatic, theatrical (also theatric), unreserved, unrestrained
Synonym Discussion of impassive
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- met the news with an impassive look
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- was resolutely stoic even in adversity
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- a phlegmatic man unmoved by tears
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- charitable appeals met an apathetic response
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- stolid workers wedded to routine
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