unblinking

Adjective

Open English WordNet

Adjective (2)

  1. showing no visible emotion“stood unblinking and accepted a sentence of a year”Opposite emotionalSimilar unemotional
  2. not shrinking from dangerSynonyms: unflinchingunintimidatedunshrinkingOpposite afraidSimilar unafraid, fearless
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

emotionless \e*mo"tion*less\ adj.

1.unsusceptible to, destitute of, or showing no emotion; unmoved by feeling. Opposite of emotional; as, he kept his emotionless objectivity and faith in the cause he served. [Narrower terms: matter-of-fact, prosaic; philosophical, philosophic; phlegmatic, phlegmatical, stolid; stoic, stoical; unblinking] Also See: cool, passionless, unmoved(predicate), unmoving.

Syn: unemotional, passionless. [WordNet 1.5]

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