IMPERSONAL Synonyms: 127 Similar and Opposite Words

impersonal

adjective

as in withdrawn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 The writer is expected to bond with a new steward who had no part in the original creative conversation, who may have entirely different instincts about the material, and who inherits a relationship already frayed by the impersonal mechanics of a deal that took forever to close. —

George Heller, HollywoodReporter, 6 May 2026 But there’s an innate slickness to drone footage that can turn a shot of, say, a South Texas Starbucks into a joke, and there’s a mechanical quality to the way drones glide through the air that, even if controlled by a human, feels impersonal — a view from nowhere. —

Alison Willmore, Vulture, 1 May 2026 Its few lasting effects are impersonal and clichéd. —

Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2026 Where there was once an insistence on an impersonal space, there is now an acknowledgment that the therapist does not have to cloak their identity in a benign anonymity. —

Wendy C. Ortiz, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for impersonal

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Patrick Stewart is also among those to have publicly discussed working with a withdrawn Hardy, who has also starred in The Dark Knight trilogy, Peaky Blinders and the Venom films.

— Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 27 May 2026
Read more on the deadly ripple effects of withdrawn aid.

— Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 20 May 2026