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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; not easily aroused or excited;
- Example: "her impassive remoteness"
- Example: "he remained impassive, showing neither interest in nor concern for our plight"- Nordhoff & Hall;
- Example: "a silent stolid creature who took it all as a matter of course"-Virginia Woolf
- Example: "her face showed nothing but stolid indifference"
[syn: impassive, stolid]

2. deliberately impassive in manner;
- Example: "deadpan humor"
- Example: "his face remained expressionless as the verdict was read"
[syn: deadpan, expressionless, impassive, poker-faced, unexpressive]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Impassive \Im*pas"sive\, a.
   Not susceptible of pain or suffering; apathetic; impassible;
   unmoved.
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         Impassive as the marble in the quarry.   --De Quincey.
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         On the impassive ice the lightings play. --Pope.
   -- Im*pas"sive*ly, adv. -- Im*pas"sive*ness, n.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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