as in withdrawn
having or showing no emotional warmth or interest in others
The CEO was impersonal during the meeting, focusing only on the business at hand.
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Recent Examples of impersonal
What participants are often pointing out is the impersonal, almost meaningless nature of AI: the online posts hyping an idea in generic language, the onslaught of images that say little about the person posting them beyond their ability to write a short prompt and hit send.
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Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 7 Sep. 2025
The work in that book was surreal and stealthily philosophical—its opening poem was a fifteen-page meditation on the ontology of Popeye the Sailor Man—but impersonal.
—Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
Too often, ‘security technology’ is framed as cold, impersonal, or invasive.
—Jason Phillips, USA Today, 22 Aug. 2025
Following its release, some critics dinged the record for being too impersonal.
—Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 20 Aug. 2025
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Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 7 Sep. 2025
The work in that book was surreal and stealthily philosophical—its opening poem was a fifteen-page meditation on the ontology of Popeye the Sailor Man—but impersonal.
—Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
Too often, ‘security technology’ is framed as cold, impersonal, or invasive.
—Jason Phillips, USA Today, 22 Aug. 2025
Following its release, some critics dinged the record for being too impersonal.
—Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 20 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for impersonal
Adjective
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Set in Taiwan in 1988, Girl revolves around Hsiao-lee, a quiet and withdrawn girl, growing up in silent gloom.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
5 Aug. 2025
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Unfortunately, further discussions were heated, with no resolve, just more withdrawn behavior while the communications continued.—
Jeanne Phillips,
Mercury News,
30 July 2025
Adjective
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Due to his austere and detached manner, he is known to immediately inspire awe in his patients.—
Ut Community Press,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
16 Sep. 2025
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The consensus narrative of institutional finance has become so detached from empirical reality that diagnosing the problem requires abandoning its vocabulary for the precision of mathematics.—
Benjamin D. Summers,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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New James Webb Space Telescope observations have shed light on a distant world with no sun.—
Chris Young,
Interesting Engineering,
1 Oct. 2025
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Over the centuries, Muslim traders built mosques and schools in sedate Tamale, which was more inland and distant from the direct links of the transatlantic slave and colonial trade.—
Edna Bonhomme,
Artforum,
1 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Carr, who apparently reacted to Kimmel's suspension last week by sending a GIF of TV characters doing a celebratory dance to a journalist, yesterday described his role at the FCC as that of a dispassionate arbiter.—
Jon Brodkin,
ArsTechnica,
23 Sep. 2025
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Kirkpatrick set out to create a fair, dispassionate tally of Trump’s two terms so far.—
David Remnick,
New Yorker,
11 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Sage Ahrens-Nichols, 30, Olympia, Washington, clinical social worker.—
Bebe Hodges,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
2 Oct. 2025
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In a clinical study,1 93% of women saw improvement in dryness and brittleness and felt their hair looked healthier in 6 months.—
Korin Miller,
Flow Space,
1 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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There is professional integrity (as an analyst).—
Adam Crafton,
New York Times,
7 Oct. 2025
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With clients who range from professional women to Indigenous farmworkers, Ruizquez shares Native wisdom.—
DeAnna Taylor,
USA Today,
7 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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The red agate worn by his mother reflects silent compassion, and the pearl accents on the Wulu pendant evoke the gentle passage of time.—
Tianwei Zhang,
Footwear News,
29 Sep. 2025
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Burnett was content to mine references from her own Depression-era youth; her famous maid character, the Charwoman, who became something of a show mascot, harked back to Chaplin’s Little Tramp, wearing a rumpled outfit and performing silent reveries.—
Rachel Syme,
New Yorker,
29 Sep. 2025
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“Impersonal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impersonal. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.
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