impassive

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. adjective having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; not easily aroused or excited; ; - Nordhoff & Hall; -Virginia Woolf
  2. adjective deliberately impassive in manner

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).

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Synonyms

stolid

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