'Impassive' definitions:
Definition of 'impassive'
From: WordNet
adjective
Having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; not easily aroused or excited; "her impassive remoteness"; "he remained impassive, showing neither interest in nor concern for our plight"- Nordhoff & Hall; "a silent stolid creature who took it all as a matter of course"-Virginia Woolf; "her face showed nothing but stolid indifference" [syn: impassive, stolid]
adjective
Deliberately impassive in manner; "deadpan humor"; "his face remained expressionless as the verdict was read" [syn: deadpan, expressionless, impassive, poker-faced, unexpressive]
Definition of 'Impassive'
From: GCIDE
- Impassive \Im*pas"sive\, a. Not susceptible of pain or suffering; apathetic; impassible; unmoved. [1913 Webster]
- Impassive as the marble in the quarry. --De Quincey. [1913 Webster]
- On the impassive ice the lightings play. --Pope. -- {Im*pas"sive*ly}, adv. -- {Im*pas"sive*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'impassive'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- affectless,
- aloof,
- anesthetized,
- apathetic,
- arctic,
- at rest,
- autistic,
- backward,
- bashful,
- blank,
- blunt,
- bored,
- bovine,
- callous,
- calm,
- careless,
- catatonic,
- chill,
- chilled,
- chilly,
- cloistered,
- cold,
- cold as charity,
- cold-blooded,
- coldhearted,
- collected,
- composed,
- constrained,
- contained,
- controlled,
- cool,
- deadpan,
- detached,
- discreet,
- disinterested,
- dispassionate,
- distant,
- drugged,
- dry,
- dull,
- dwindling,
- ebbing,
- emotionally dead,
- emotionless,
- empty,
- even-tempered,
- even-tenored,
- expressionless,
- fishy,
- forbidding,
- frigid,
- frosted,
- frosty,
- frozen,
- glassy,
- guarded,
- halcyon,
- hardened,
- heartless,
- heedless,
- hushed,
- icy,
- immovable,
- impassible,
- impersonal,
- imperturbable,
- inaccessible,
- incurious,
- indifferent,
- indurated,
- inexcitable,
- inexpressive,
- inirritable,
- insensible,
- insensitive,
- insentient,
- insouciant,
- insusceptible,
- introverted,
- isolated,
- lackadaisical,
- listless,
- matter-of-fact,
- mindless,
- modest,
- moldering,
- nonchalant,
- nonemotional,
- objective,
- obtuse,
- offish,
- Olympian,
- out of touch,
- pacific,
- passionless,
- patient,
- peaceable,
- peaceful,
- phlegmatic,
- placid,
- poker-faced,
- quiescent,
- quiet,
- regardless,
- remote,
- removed,
- reposeful,
- reposing,
- repressed,
- reserved,
- restful,
- resting,
- restrained,
- reticent,
- retiring,
- secluded,
- self-absorbed,
- sequestered,
- sequestrated,
- serene,
- sheltered,
- shrinking,
- smooth,
- soulless,
- spiritless,
- standoff,
- standoffish,
- steady,
- still,
- still as death,
- stillish,
- stilly,
- stoic,
- stoical,
- stolid,
- stony,
- subdued,
- subsiding,
- suppressed,
- taciturn,
- tranquil,
- unaffable,
- unaffectionate,
- unagitated,
- unapproachable,
- uncaring,
- unconcerned,
- uncongenial,
- undemonstrative,
- undisturbable,
- undisturbed,
- unemotional,
- unexcitable,
- unexpansive,
- unexpressive,
- unfeeling,
- unflappable,
- ungenial,
- unimpassioned,
- unimpressible,
- unimpressionable,
- uninquiring,
- uninterested,
- uninvolved,
- unirritable,
- unloving,
- unmindful,
- unmoved,
- unnervous,
- unpassionate,
- unperturbed,
- unresponding,
- unresponsive,
- unruffled,
- unstirring,
- unsusceptible,
- unsympathetic,
- untouchable,
- untroubled,
- vacant,
- waning,
- withdrawn,
- wooden