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impassive
What does impassive mean?
impassive (adjective): having, or revealing, no emotion.
Definition: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
How do you use impassive in a sentence?
- He remained impassive, showing neither interest in nor concern for our plight. (Princeton WordNet 3.1)
- Her impassive remoteness. (Princeton WordNet 3.1)
How do you pronounce impassive?
/ɪmˈpæsɪv/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does impassive come from?
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).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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