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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
Schuyler was impassive and outwardly calm, but in his very calm projected a certain vulnerability.
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Literary Hub, 14 Aug. 2025
The impassive march of content and the shuffling tread of death.
—Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2025
The calm pool, impassive and lovely, kept tempting me.
—Hazlitt, 6 Aug. 2025
Blount, who appeared wearing a white button-down shirt and tie, his hands shackled in front of him, his bulging gut and beige tie spilling over his beige pants, appeared impassive and refused to meet his victim’s gaze as Rothschild addressed him personally.
—Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 10 July 2025
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Literary Hub, 14 Aug. 2025
The impassive march of content and the shuffling tread of death.
—Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2025
The calm pool, impassive and lovely, kept tempting me.
—Hazlitt, 6 Aug. 2025
Blount, who appeared wearing a white button-down shirt and tie, his hands shackled in front of him, his bulging gut and beige tie spilling over his beige pants, appeared impassive and refused to meet his victim’s gaze as Rothschild addressed him personally.
—Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 10 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for impassive
Adjective
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Bieber isn’t like some stoic pitchers.—
Mitch Bannon,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
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In Start of Watch, Harry Bosch, a intensely observant, stoic and unyielding young man, is a probationary patrol officer with the LAPD.—
Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
15 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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The bad column was virtually blank.—
Jay Glennie,
Deadline,
16 Oct. 2025
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Taasa looks at him in blank, exhausted disgust and then looks straight into the camera.—
Kathryn VanArendonk,
Vulture,
14 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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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
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The company poured $10 billion into its Reality Labs division last year, and CEO Mark Zuckerberg was criticized last week after posting a selfie that showed an expressionless version of his avatar in front of the Eiffel Tower.—
Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez,
Fortune,
30 Aug. 2022
Adjective
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While all this is going on, the rest of the gang is splitting up to find Marie and warn her about Annabeth’s nightmare-premonition of her bloodied, motionless body.—
Ben Rosenstock,
Vulture,
15 Oct. 2025
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In the eastbound direction, between the queue of cars and congregation of responders, lay a motionless helicopter, not in the sky, but on the ground; not right-side-up but on its roof.—
Jake Goodrick,
Sacbee.com,
11 Oct. 2025
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And with a new and enigmatic Duke at the helm, Tintagel is also facing an uncertain future.—
Ellise Shafer,
Variety,
8 Oct. 2025
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Though the television show portrays Gein as a character so eccentric that townspeople don't feel comfortable sharing a nearby seat with him at the local diner, Gein was enigmatic but trustworthy to the locals in his younger years.—
JR Radcliffe,
jsonline.com,
6 Oct. 2025
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“Impassive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impassive. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.
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