How do you use Impersonal in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like personal or neutral, plus the exact meaning.
Impersonal meaning
- Not personal; not representing a person; not having personality.
- Lacking warmth or emotion; cold.
- Not having a subject, or having a third person pronoun without an antecedent.
Synonyms of Impersonal
Using Impersonal
- The main meaning on this page is: Not personal; not representing a person; not having personality. | Lacking warmth or emotion; cold. | Not having a subject, or having a third person pronoun without an antecedent.
- Useful related words include: nonpersonal, personal, neutral, objective.
- In the example corpus, impersonal often appears in combinations such as: and impersonal, an impersonal, the impersonal.
Context around Impersonal
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 11 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Impersonal
- In this selection, "impersonal" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 20.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, verbs, feels, little, verbs, forces and middle stand out and add context to how "impersonal" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a little impersonal for the and and cold impersonal interactions on. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "impersonal" sits close to words such as adamson, adapts and adeyemi, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with impersonal
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
They are too impersonal. (4 words)
Impersonal verbs Impersonal verbs are those lacking a person. (9 words)
Its fleshy, orangish color brought warmth to the impersonal staircase. (10 words)
The police thought calling their drones number one, two, three and four felt a little impersonal for the hardworking crime busters and called on the help of possible next generation police officers and drone pilots to name them. (38 words)
The fact remained that those little histories, those family stories, were lost, imploded, just like the people who gave them life, all dying for the sake of a massive corporate investment by impersonal money. (34 words)
As described by the researcher, the sudden turn of events also shows how arbitrary, shortsighted, and impersonal many standard processes associated with corporate cutbacks can seem to people impacted by them. (31 words)
Can we trust our brains if it evolved from impersonal forces, not to mention irrational and random processes? (18 words)
Example sentences (20)
Impersonal verbs Impersonal verbs are those lacking a person.
A lot of people look at gift cards as being impersonal and that couldn't be further from the truth.
As described by the researcher, the sudden turn of events also shows how arbitrary, shortsighted, and impersonal many standard processes associated with corporate cutbacks can seem to people impacted by them.
Can we trust our brains if it evolved from impersonal forces, not to mention irrational and random processes?
Don’t just count on aggregate sites like Rotten Tomatoes, where scores often represent an impersonal middle road.
It can lead to content that feels impersonal, generic and lacking the emotional connection that successful storytelling requires.
Its fleshy, orangish color brought warmth to the impersonal staircase.
Other times, he coldly dismisses them like an impersonal overlord.
The fact remained that those little histories, those family stories, were lost, imploded, just like the people who gave them life, all dying for the sake of a massive corporate investment by impersonal money.
The first was purposefully an impersonal film, highlighted by fleeting moments of humanity captured in the burgeoning friendship between Rake and the teenaged boy he rescues.
The police thought calling their drones number one, two, three and four felt a little impersonal for the hardworking crime busters and called on the help of possible next generation police officers and drone pilots to name them.
The repetitiveness, lack of organic communication and cold, impersonal interactions on platforms like Tinder are nothing new.
Finally, many online recruiting approaches are clinical and impersonal, therefore hiring managers and recruiters should think about making their hiring procedures more personable.
They are too impersonal.
We can spend our lives staring at our phones for the news, the weather, watching sports highlights, but it becomes impersonal.
Again, we’re both serving our notions of what the artistry is here as we both see it and it’s not personal, it’s impersonal.
A nation is not merely an impersonal grouping of individuals around a common economy.
And though it was the most profitable of the series (adjusting for inflation), it feels like the most impersonal of Connery’s, with a hard-to-remember plot and middling characters.
Combined with his personal fortune and impersonal style, his management of the country left many Canadians underwhelmed.
Health and wellness issues are still seen as a questioning of a person’s “manhood”, he says, adding that sometimes impersonal technology can, in fact, be more human.
Common combinations with impersonal
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: