Impassive

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  impassive
       adj 1: 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: {stolid}]
       2: deliberately impassive in manner; "deadpan humor"; "his face
          remained expressionless as the verdict was read" [syn: {deadpan},
           {expressionless}, {poker-faced}, {unexpressive}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  183 Moby Thesaurus words for "impassive":
     Olympian, 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, 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