impassive
Adjective Satellite
- having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; not easily aroused or excited; ; - Nordhoff & Hall; -Virginia Woolf
- "her impassive remoteness"
- "he remained impassive, showing neither interest in nor concern for our plight"
- deliberately impassive in manner
Adj
- Having, or revealing, no emotion.
- Still or motionless.
Origin / Etymology
From im- (prefix meaning ‘not’) + passive (“which is, or is capable of being, acted on; (obsolete) which suffers, or may suffer, pain, death, etc.”, adjective).
Synonyms
deadpan, expressionless, poker-faced, stolid, unexpressive, Laodicean, adiaphroistic, alexithymic, apathetic, apathistical, at rest, blasé, clinical, cold-blooded, cold-hearted, cool, dead inside, dispassionate, dull, emotionless, enervated, gallionic, halfhearted, heartless, immovable, impassible, impassive, inanimate, indifferent, ineffervescible, inert, insensible, insouciant, jaded, lackadaisical, languid, languorous, lethargic, lifeless, listless, lotophagous, lukewarm, mopey, motionless, nonchalant, nonemotional, nonfeeling, nonpassionate, nonplussed, nonsentimental, phlegmatic, pococurante, sedent, sedentary, shiftless, spiritless, stationary, still, stock-still, supine, tepid, torpedinous, torpid, unaroused, uncaring, unconcerned, unemotional, unenthusiastic, unfeeling, unimpressible, uninterested, unlively, unmovable, unmoved, unmoving, unpassionate, unsentimental, untouched, unzealous, world-weary
Scrabble Score: 16
impassive: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordimpassive: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
impassive: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary