Imperturbable

Definition: Imperturbable

Imperturbable

Adjective

1. Not easily perturbed or excited or upset; marked by extreme calm and composure; "hitherto imperturbable, he now showed signs of alarm"; "an imperturbable self-possession"; "unflappable in a crisis".

Date "imperturbable" was first used: 15th century. (references)

Synonym: Imperturbable

Synonym: unflappable (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Excitability	Adjective: inexcitable, unexcitable; imperturbable; unsusceptible; (insensible); unpassionate, dispassionate; cold-blooded, irritable; enduring; Verb: stoical, Platonic, philosophic, staid, stayed; sober, sober minded; grave; sober as a judge, grave as a judge; sedate, demure, cool-headed.
Insensibility	Callous, thick-skinned, hard-nosed, pachydermatous, impervious; hardened; inured, casehardened; steeled against, proof against; imperturbable; (inexcitable); unfelt.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Imperturbable

English words defined with "imperturbable": Impertrubable, Imperturbably ♦ unflappable. (references)

Specialty definitions using "imperturbable": Bertolde. (references)

Etymologies containing "imperturbable": Impertrubable. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Imperturbable" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (cool-headed, imperturbable, unconcerned, unflappable), Spanish (cool-headed, even, impassive, imperturbable, unflappable, unshakable).

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.

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	She was almost celebrated in the congregation for this imperturbable veracity.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Imperturbable" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Imperturbable" is used about 24 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%	24	71,196

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "imperturbable": seemingly-imperturbable.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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 "imperturbable"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i patronditshëm (unshakeable), i patrazuar (comfortable, comfy, heart-whole, laid back, level, peaceful, placid, smooth, unabashed, unadulterated, unblended, unconcerned, undigested, unperturbed), gjakftohtë (calm, cold blooded, cool, dispassionate, even tempered, impassible, placid, self contained, self possessed, serene, sober-blooded, unflappable). (various references)

Arabic		‏هادئ (calm, cloistered, composed, cool, dispassionate, easygoing, even, impassive, laid back, peaceable, peaceful, piping, placid, possessed, quiescent, quiet, reposeful, restful, self possessed, serene, sober, steady, still, tranquil, undisturbed, uneventful, unflappable, unmoved, unruffled, windless), ‏رابط الجأش (collected, composed, cool, cucumber, nonchalant, philosophical, phlegmatical, possessed, self possessed). (various references)

Bulgarian		спокоен (arcadian, calm, clear, collected, contented, cool, dreamy, easeful, easy, equable, equal, even tempered, even-minded, halcyon, immovable, impassive, 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), невъзмутим (doubtless, immovable, impassible, sedate, unabashed, unblinking, unflappable, unperturbed, unruffled). (various references)

Chinese		心清. (various references)

Czech		klidný (calm, collected, composed, cool, easy, halcyon, impassive, 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 (impassive, phlegmatic, stolid, unflappable, unruffled). (various references)

Farsi		تزلزل ناپذیر (Adamant), ساکت (Acquiescent, Calm, Hush, Serene, Shush, Silent, Still, Whist), خونسرد (Cool, Dispassionate, Impassive, Meek, Unconcerned, Uninterested), ارام (Bland, Calm, Daft, Douce, Gentle, Hush, Moderate, Pacific, Peaceable, Peaceful, Placid, Quiet, Sedate, Serene, Silent, Staid, Taciturn, Tranquil, Unblenched, Unruffled, Whist). (various references)

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

German		unerschütterlich (imperturbably, impregnable, inextinguishable, ingrained, irrepressible, phlegmatic, sturdy, unassailable, unchallengeable, undaunted, undoubting, unfaltering, unflappable, unflinching, unruffled, unshakable, unshaken, unshakenly, unswerving, unwavering, unwaveringly), unbeirrbar (single minded, undeviating, unflinching, unswerving, unwavering, unwaveringly). (various references)

Greek		ατάρακτοσ, ατάραχοσ (composed, cool, sedate, self possessed, stolid, unabashed, unperturbed, unruffled), αδιατάρακτοσ (undisturbed). (various references)

Hebrew		לא מתר�'ש, קר רוח (cool, dispassionate, listless, nonchalant, unflappable). (various references)

Hungarian		sodrából ki nem hozható, rendíthetetlen (firm as a rock, grim, inexorable, insistent, shock-proof, stalwart, stanch, staunch, Stonewall, uncompromising, unflappable, unshakable, unshrinking), megzavarhatatlan, flegmatikus (irresponsive, phlegmatic, pokey, poky, stolid), egykedvű (impassive, lackadaisical, languid, stolid). (various references)

Indonesian		tak dapat diganggu. (various references)

Italian		imperturbabile (passionless, stolid, unflappable), imperterrito (impassive, undaunted). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		泰然自若たる (self-possessed). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		たいぜ�"じじゃくたる (self-possessed). (various references)

Manx		feayr-chooishagh (apathetic, frigid, impassive, indifferent, languid, phlegmatic, self-possessed, unfeeling), feayr-aignagh (collected, cool-headed, dispassionate), do-chorree. (various references)

Norwegian		uforstyrrelig. (various references)

Pig Latin		imperturbableay.(various references)

Portuguese		imperturbável (even-minded, stolid, unabashed, unflappable, unruffled, unshakeable, unstirred), impassível (coldlivered, cool, even, immovable, impassible, impassive, insentient, irresponsive, passionless, phlegmatic, plodding, stolid, unabashed, unconcerned, unmoved, unperturbed, unstirred), sangue-frio (sang froid, self control, self-command). (various references)

Romanian		imperturbabil (imperturbably, passionless, unruffled), liniştit (breathless, calm, calmly, comfortable, composed, cool, dead, dispassionate, easy, even, gentle, gently, gently-sloping, halcyon, in comfortable circumstances, mild, noiseless, orderly, Pacific, passive, peaceable, peaceful, peacefully, placid, placidly, quiescent, quiet, reposeful, restful, secure, sedate, serene, silent, slow, smooth, sober, soft, still, tranquil, unabashed, unruffled, untroubled). (various references)

Russian		спокойный (calm, calmer, composed, cool-headed, cosh, douce, easeful, easy, even tempered, even-minded, even-tempered, laid back, laid-back, level headed, placid, quiet, reposeful, secure, sedate, serene, settled, sober-blooded, still, tranquil, untroubled), невозмутимый (cold livered, cold-livered, cool, passionless, unflappable, unperturbed, unstirred). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		neuzbudljiv (unexciting, unimpressive), hladnokrvan (cold blooded, nerveless, sober-blooded, tranquil). (various references)

Spanish		imperturbable (cool-headed, even, impassive, unflappable, unshakable). (various references)

Swedish		orubblig (adamant, firm, immovable, impassive, impregnable, inexorable, inflexible, pertinacious, tenacious, unblinking, uncompromising, unfaltering, unflinching, unshakable, unshaken, unswerving, unwavering, unyielding). (various references)

Turkish		soğukkanlı (calm, cold blooded, cool, cool-headed, even tempered, nonchalant, unflappable, unperturbed), sakin (airless, calm, citizen, comfortable, composed, composedly, dispassionate, domicilled, dweller, equal, even, even tempered, habitant, halcyon, hushed, in repose, indweller, inhabitant, inmate, laidback, local, nerveless, noiseless, Pacific, peaceable, peaceful, philosophic, philosophical, placid, quiescent, quiet, reposeful, resident, sedate, serene, smooth, steady, still, tenant, tranquil, unperturbed, unruffled, untroubled), ağırbaşlı (austere, calm, demure, dignified, earnest, graceful, grand, matronly, only, sage, sedate, serious, sober, sober minded, solemn, staid). (various references)

Ukranian		незворушний (calm, immovable, unflappable, unperturbed). (various references)

Vietnamese		không hề nao núng (cool), bình tĩnh; không hề bối rối, điềm tĩnh (calmly, composed, cool, impassive, passionless, placid, self-collected, settled). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Medieval Latin	700-1500	imperturbabilis. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Misspellings
	"Imperturbable" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: imperterbable, imperturable, imperurbable, impeturbable, impurturbable, iperturbable. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-b-e-e-i-l-m-p-r-r-t-u"
	-2 letters: perturbable.
	-3 letters: permutable.
	-4 letters: bramblier, eruptible, imputable, prelature, premature, reputable, tremblier.
	-5 letters: abrupter, aperture, apterium, atremble, biteable, blearier, burblier, imparter, liberate, limberer, lumberer, marblier, materiel, murrelet, palterer, paltrier, partible, pearlier, pearlite, pebblier, periblem, plumeria, preamble, pretrial, pubertal, rabbiter, realtime, reburial, retailer, rubblier, rumplier, ruralite, tamperer, terrible, trampler, trembler, upbearer, ureteral.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-b-e-e-i-l-m-p-r-r-t-u"
	+5 letters: imperturbabilities.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.