Passionless
['pæʃnləs]
Definition
(adj.) not passionate; 'passionless observation of human nature' .
Editor: Wendell--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Void of passion; without anger or emotion; not easily excited; calm.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Impassive, unsusceptible, unimpressible, apathetic, cold, phlegmatic, stoical, cold-blooded, without passion or feeling.[2]. Cool, calm, collected, unmoved, imperturbable, of a calm temper.
Typist: Tyler
Examples
- I was not beaten, or starved; but the wrong that was done to me had no intervals of relenting, and was done in a systematic, passionless manner. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- She sat upright in her arm-chair, with a stately, immovable, passionless air, that it seemed as if nothing could disturb. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- One who is too passionless to be either. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
Typist: Tyler