 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
impersonal
adjective
1: not relating to or responsive to individual persons; "an
impersonal corporation"; "an impersonal remark" [ant:
{personal}]
2: having no personal preference; "impersonal criticism"; "a
neutral observer" [syn: {neutral}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Impersonal \Im*per"son*al\, adjective [L. impersonalis; pref. im- not +
personalis personal: cf. F. impersonnel. See {Personal}.]
Not personal; not representing a person; not having
personality.
An almighty but impersonal power, called Fate. --Sir J.
Stephen.
{Impersonal verb} (Gram.), a verb used with an indeterminate
subject, commonly, in English, with the impersonal pronoun
it; as, it rains; it snows; methinks (it seems to me).
Many verbs which are not strictly impersonal are often
used impersonally; as, it goes well with him.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Impersonal \Im*per"son*al\, noun
That which wants personality; specifically (Gram.), an
impersonal verb.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
101 Moby Thesaurus words for "impersonal":
Olympian, abstract, aloof, backward, bashful, blank, candid,
chilled, chilly, cold, cold-blooded, colorless, constrained,
conventionalized, cool, detached, discreet, disinterested,
dispassionate, distant, emotionless, equal, equitable, evenhanded,
expressionless, external, extraneous, extraorganismal, extrinsic,
fair, forbidding, foreign, formal, formalist, formalistic,
formulary, frigid, frosty, guarded, icy, impartial, impassive,
inaccessible, indifferent, introverted, just, legalistic, lofty,
matter-of-fact, mechanical, modest, neutral, nominal,
nonsubjective, objective, offish, outlying, outside, outward,
pedantic, poker-faced, prim, remote, removed, repressed, reserved,
restrained, reticent, retiring, rigid, selfless, shrinking,
standoff, standoffish, stiff, strait-laced, stuffy, stylized,
subdued, superficial, suppressed, surface, unaffable,
unapproachable, unbiased, uncolored, uncongenial, undazzled,
undemonstrative, unexpansive, unfriendly, ungenial, unimpassioned,
uninfluenced, unjaundiced, unprejudiced, unprepossessed, unselfish,
unswayed, withdrawn, wooden
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