Impassive

Definitions: Impassive

Impassive

Adjective

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".

2. Deliberately impassive in manner; "deadpan humor"; "his face remained expressionless as the verdict was read".

Date "impassive" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonyms: Impassive

Synonyms: deadpan (adj), expressionless (adj), poker-faced (adj), stolid (adj), unexpressive (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Incuriosity	Adjective: incurious, uninquisitive, indifferent; impassive; uninterested, detached, aloof.
Insensibility	Adjective: insensible, unconscious; impassive, impassible; blind to, deaf to, dead to; unsusceptible, insusceptible; unimpressionable, unimpressible; passionless, spiritless, heartless, soulless; unfeeling, unmoral.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Impassive

English words defined with "impassive": deadpan, dull ♦ expressionless ♦ impassively ♦ poker-faced ♦ stoic, stoical, stolid ♦ unexpressive. (references)

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	The Impassive Footman (1932)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Play	Caption
	Cinema; nonchalant; airy; aloof; apathetic; blase; calm; careless; casual; cold; collected; composed; cool; detached; disimpassioned; disinterested; dispassionate; easy; effortless; frigid; happy; impassive; imperturbable; incurious; indifferent; insoucia.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Impassive" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Impassive" is used about 169 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	169	23,972

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "impassive"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i pandjeshëm (dead, hard-hearted, impassible, imperceptible, insensate, insensible, insensitive, insentient, insusceptible, unfeeling), i paemocionuar. (various references)

Arabic		‏فاقد الحس و الوع, ‏هادئ (calm, cloistered, composed, cool, dispassionate, easygoing, even, imperturbable, laid back, peaceable, peaceful, piping, placid, possessed, quiescent, quiet, reposeful, restful, self possessed, serene, sober, steady, still, tranquil, undisturbed, uneventful, unflappable, unmoved, unruffled, windless), ‏عديم العاطفة, ‏جامد الشعور (immovable), ‏رائق (bright, calm, clear, limpid, piping, placid, pure, serene). (various references)

Bulgarian		студен (algid, asepsis, bleak, bloodless, cold, cool, dead, frigid, frosted, frosty, gelid, iced, icy, inhuman, raw, repulsive, stony, unapproachable, undersexed, unloving, unresponsive, winterly, wintry), спокоен (arcadian, calm, clear, collected, contented, cool, dreamy, easeful, easy, equable, equal, even tempered, even-minded, halcyon, immovable, imperturbable, leisurely, level, nerveless, peaceful, philosophical, piping, placid, quiet, reposeful, restful, secure, sedate, self possessed, self-collected, settled, smooth, soft, staid, steady, steady-going, still, stirless, unalarmed, unbuttoned, unconcerned, undisturbed, uneventful, unflappable, unmolested, unruffled, untroubled), нечувствителен (hard-grained, impassible, insensitive, insusceptible, rocky), безстрастен (apathetic, apathetical, cold-livered, dispassionate, impassible, passionless, stolid, torpid). (various references)

Czech		neteèný (apathetic, indifferent, indolent, inert, lackadaisical, lethargic, passive, phlegmatic, sleepy, sluggish, supine), lhostejný (apathetic, casual, cold, coldly, detached, impervious, indifferent, insensible, lackadaisical, neglectful, negligent, nonchalant, phlegmatic, unconcerned, uninterested, unsympathetic), klidný (calm, collected, composed, cool, easy, halcyon, imperturbable, laid back, Pacific, peaceable, peaceful, placid, quiescent, quiet, reposeful, restful, secure, sedate, self possessed, serene, silent, smooth, sober, still, temperate, tranquil, uneventful, unmoved, unperturbed), flegmatický (imperturbable, phlegmatic, stolid, unflappable, unruffled). (various references)

Farsi		پوست کلفت , تالم ناپذیر, خونسرد (Cool, Dispassionate, Imperturbable, Meek, Unconcerned, Uninterested), بیحس (Callous, Insensate, Insensible, Insensitive, Numb, Obtuse, Senseless, Unfeeling), بی عاطفه (Callous, Inhuman, Insensate, Insensitive, Obdurate, Stolid, Unfeeling, Unkind). (various references)

French		impassible (impassible, imperturbable). (various references)

German		teilnahmslos (apathetic, impassively, indifferent, lethargic, lethargically, lifeless, lifelessly, listless, passive, uncaring, unresponsive, unsympathetic). (various references)

Greek		απαθήσ (apathetic, cool, dispassionate, impassible, passionless, stolid, unresponsive). (various references)

Hebrew		חסר ר�'ש (unfeeling). (various references)

Hungarian		közömbös (cool, dry eyed, impassible, incurious, indifferent, inert, lackadaisical, listless, lukewarm, neglectful, neutral, third party, third person), egykedvű (imperturbable, lackadaisical, languid, stolid). (various references)

Indonesian		tak berperasaan (callosity). (various references)

Italian		imperterrito (imperturbable, undaunted), impassibile (deadpan, immovable, impassible, passionless, unmoved). (various references)

Manx		feayr-chooishagh (apathetic, frigid, imperturbable, indifferent, languid, phlegmatic, self-possessed, unfeeling). (various references)

Pig Latin		impassiveay.(various references)

Portuguese		insensível (blind, callous, chill, cold blooded, cold-hearted, coldlivered, flint hearted, flinty, frozen chicken, hard, hard boiled, hard-hearted, immune, impervious, impetigo, implant, indifferent, indolent, indolently, inhumane, insensate, insensible, insensitive, insentient, inswept, irresponsive, keen, laodicean, lukewarm, marble, seared, stony, unfeeling, unresponsive, unsusceptible, unsympathetic), impassível (coldlivered, cool, even, immovable, impassible, imperturbable, insentient, irresponsive, passionless, phlegmatic, plodding, stolid, unabashed, unconcerned, unmoved, unperturbed, unstirred), exaltado (exalted, frenetic, high-level, high-up, hot tempered, hot-brained, hot-headed, partisan, phrenetic, rampant, up, volcanic). (various references)

Romanian		indiferent (all one, all the same, anywhere, apathetic, apathetical, careless, chill, cool, dull, indifferent, indifferently, inhuman, insensible, insensitive, lackadaisical, languid, listless, nonchalant, numb, perfunctory, phlegmatic, pococurante, reckless, remiss, slack, slow, sluggish, stolid, unconcerned, unimportant, unmoved), impasibil (impassible, unmoved), nepãsãtor (airily, apathetic, apathetical, apathetically, careless, casual, devil may care, easy going, happy go lucky, heedless, impassible, inconsiderate, incurious, indifferent, indolent, insensible, insouciant, jaunty, lackadaisical, listless, neglectful, negligent, nonchalant, reckless, regardless, remiss, slack, slow, stolid, thoughtless, unmoved). (various references)

Russian		нечувствительный (case-hardened, impassible, insensible, insensitive, insusceptible, non-sensitive), бесстрастный (affectionless, cold-livered, dispassionate, dry, frigid, impassible, passionless, stolid, unemotional). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		neosetljiv (cold-livered, impassible, imperceptible, insensate, insensible, insensitive, insusceptible, senseless, steel, stolid, stony, tearless, unfeeling, unsusceptible), bezosećajan (dryasdust, frozen, insensitive). (various references)

Spanish		impasible (cold-livered, impassible, indifferent, insensible, unmoved). (various references)

Swedish		känslolös (cold, impassible, insensate, insentient, uncaring, unfeeling). (various references)

Turkish		vurdumduymaz (impervious, insusceptible, pachydermatous, stolid, thickskinned), ruhsuz (dead alive, dull, inanimate, soulless, spiritless, stagnant, wooden), kayıtsız (apathetic, apathetical, carefree, careless, devil may care, feckless, footloose, forgetful, freewheeling, incurious, indifferent, listless, nonchalant, reckless, regardless, rough and ready, unconditional, uninscribed, unmindful, unrecorded, unregistered), hissiz (apathetic, apathetical, benumbed, bloodless, callous, crass, cruel, devoid of feelings, dispassionate, down to earth, impassible, indifferent, insensate, insensible, insensitive, insentient, insusceptible, numb, senseless, soulless, torpid). (various references)

Ukranian		спокійний (balanced, calm, canny, collected, composed, cool, cool-headed, deft, easeful, even-minded, halcyon, laidback, leisurable, orderly, placid, quiescent, quiet, relaxed, reposeful, restful, secure, sound, together, tranquil, unruffled), нестерпний (chronic, cruel, excruciating, impossible, insufferable, insupportable, intolerable, obnoxious, painful, pink, racking, repugnant, unbearable), нечутливий (gross, impassible, insensate, insensible, insensitive, non-sensitive, senseless, stockish, unfeeling). (various references)

Vietnamese		điềm tĩnh (calmly, composed, cool, imperturbable, passionless, placid, self-collected, settled). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "impassive": impassively, impassiveness, impassivenesses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Impassive" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: impaasive, impactive, impasive, ipsative, mpassive. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "impassive" (pronounced i'mpa"siv)
5	-p a" s i v	passive.
4	-a" s i v	massive.
3	-s i v	abrasive, abusive, adhesive, aggressive, allusive, apprehensive, aversive, coercive, cohesive, collusive, comprehensive, compulsive, conclusive, conducive, convulsive, corrosive, counteroffensive, decisive, defensive, depressive, derisive, discursive, dismissive, dispersive, divisive, effusive, elusive, erosive, evasive, excessive, exclusive, expansive, expensive, explosive, expressive, extensive, hypertensive, illusive, impressive, impulsive, incisive, inclusive, inconclusive, indecisive, inexpensive, inoffensive, intrusive, invasive, missive, nonexclusive, nonresponsive, obsessive, obtrusive, offensive, oppressive, pensive, permissive, persuasive, pervasive, possessive, progressive, recessive, reclusive, reflexive, regressive, repressive, repulsive, responsive, submissive, subversive, successive, unimpressive, unobtrusive, unresponsive.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-i-i-m-p-s-s-v"
	-2 letters: impasse, massive, mavises, missive, passive, pavises, spavies.
	-3 letters: mavies, passim, pavise, sepias, spavie.
	-4 letters: amies, amiss, apses, apsis, aspis, impis, issei, ivies, masse, mavie, mavis, mesas, mises, paise, pases, passe, paves, pavis, pimas, samps, saves, seams, seism, semis, sepia, simas, simps, sipes, spaes, spams, spasm, spies, spivs, vamps, vases, visas, vises.
	-5 letters: aims, amie, amis, amps, apes, apse, asps, aves, impi, imps, isms, maes, maps, mass, mesa, mess, mise, miss, pams, pase, pass, pave, peas, pias, pies, pima, piss, psis, same, samp, saps, save, seam, seas, seis, semi, sima, simp, sims, sipe, sips, spae, spam, spas, spiv, vamp, vase, vies, vims, visa, vise.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-i-i-m-p-s-s-v"
	+2 letters: impassively.
	+4 letters: impassiveness, impassivities.
	+5 letters: imperativeness, improvisatores.
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