How do you use Impassive in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like stolid or unemotional, plus the exact meaning.
Impassive meaning
- Having, or revealing, no emotion.
- Still or motionless.
Synonyms of Impassive
Using Impassive
- The main meaning on this page is: Having, or revealing, no emotion. | Still or motionless.
- Useful related words include: stolid, unemotional, deadpan, expressionless.
- In the example corpus, impassive often appears in combinations such as: and impassive, an impassive.
Context around Impassive
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 5 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 13 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Impassive
- In this selection, "impassive" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, utterly, eyes, showed, voice, visage and livia stand out and add context to how "impassive" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include also showed impassive indifference and and have an impassive ethereal dignity. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "impassive" sits close to words such as aaaa, abductees and abdulahi, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with impassive
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
And so everything is to strike, it's impassive voice. (10 words)
Pelko sat, upright and impassive, as the clerk read the verdict. (11 words)
The allegorical figures of Magnanimity and Liberality have an impassive, ethereal dignity. (12 words)
Menzies was deeply distressed and abandoned his normally impassive demeanour to announce in a halting subdued voice: It is my very sorrowful duty during this celebration tonight to tell you that Mr. Chifley has died. (35 words)
Rather than static and impassive, Livia is a coiled spring, roiling with desires and frustrations, with the fury of having to live a life too often defined by its limitations. (30 words)
A streak of lightning crosses the upper half of the picture, while below it rises the impassive figure of an enigmatic goddess who holds a blue dove between her breasts. (30 words)
Example sentences (13)
And so everything is to strike, it's impassive voice.
In this maze, the guard has the utterly impassive visage we expect from a Palace Guard.
Rather than static and impassive, Livia is a coiled spring, roiling with desires and frustrations, with the fury of having to live a life too often defined by its limitations.
Viewed close up with a shallow depth of field, Putin, his mouth slightly pursed and his hooded eyes impassive, presents a face icy as a death mask.
Pelko sat, upright and impassive, as the clerk read the verdict.
A streak of lightning crosses the upper half of the picture, while below it rises the impassive figure of an enigmatic goddess who holds a blue dove between her breasts.
During the trial, Muybridge undercut his own insanity case by indicating that his actions were deliberate and premeditated, but he also showed impassive indifference and uncontrolled explosions of emotion.
God is immutable also in becoming man, the two natures are separate in Christ, and God the Logos is ever immortal and impassive.
He said, "Stanley was very stoic, impassive but imaginative type person with strong, imaginative thoughts.
He wrote stories and novels, many with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of an impassive, inscrutable universe.
His otherwise impassive and aloof attitude seems to stem from his belief that people who cannot control their emotions are weak.
Menzies was deeply distressed and abandoned his normally impassive demeanour to announce in a halting subdued voice: It is my very sorrowful duty during this celebration tonight to tell you that Mr. Chifley has died.
The allegorical figures of Magnanimity and Liberality have an impassive, ethereal dignity.
Common combinations with impassive
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- and impassive 3×
- an impassive 2×