impassive

English

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).^[1]

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /ɪmˈpæsɪv/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Rhymes: -æsɪv
Hyphenation: im‧pass‧ive

Adjective

impassive (comparative more impassive, superlative most impassive)

Having, or revealing, no emotion.
Synonyms: apathetic, phlegmatic, unemotional; see also Thesaurus:alexithymic, Thesaurus:apathetic
- 2016 May 22, Phil McNulty, “Crystal Palace 1-2 Manchester United”, in BBC‎^[1]:
  It was a victory that clearly meant so much to Van Gaal as the normally impassive manager raced from his seat in the technical area to celebrate Lingard's winner.
Still or motionless.
Synonyms: inanimate, inert; see also Thesaurus:stationary

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Translations

having, or revealing, no emotion

Bulgarian: безстрастен (bg) (bezstrasten)
Catalan: impertèrrit (ca), impàvid (ca), imperturbable, impassible (ca)
Czech: chladný (cs), netečný (cs), lhostejný (cs), flegmatický
Dutch: onbewogen (nl), gevoelloos (nl), ongeëmotioneerd, onverstoorbaar (nl)
Finnish: tunteeton (fi), välinpitämätön (fi)
French: impassible (fr)
German: gefühllos (de), gleichmütig (de), teilnahmslos (de), leidenschaftslos
Greek: απαθής (el) (apathís)
Ancient Greek: ἀπαθής (apathḗs)
Hungarian: közömbös (hu), egykedvű (hu), érzéketlen (hu)
Irish: fuarchúiseach
Italian: impassibile (it)
Japanese: 無感動な (mukandōna)
Marathi: भावनाशून्य (bhāvnāśūnya)
Portuguese: impassível (pt), imperturbável (pt)
Spanish: impasible (es), impertérrito (es)
Turkish: duyarsız (tr)

still or motionless

Czech: klidný (cs)
Finnish: liikkumaton (fi)
German: unbewegt
Hungarian: mozdulatlan (hu)
Japanese: 平然とした (hēzentoshita)
Māori: whakaririka

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Translations to be checked

Japanese: ^{(please verify)} 無感覚な (mukankakuna)
Māori: ^{(please verify)} whakaririka

References

^ “impassive, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, July 2023; “impassive, adj.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.