emotionless

Adjective
Synonyms: passionless

Open English WordNet

Adjective (1)

  1. unmoved by feeling“he kept his emotionless objectivity and faith in the cause he served”“this passionless girl was like an icicle in the sunshine — Margaret Deland”Synonyms: passionlessOpposite hotSimilar cold
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)

e·mo′tion·less adjective

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.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54 · with additions: WordNet 1.5

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