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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

Olympian, affectless, aloof, anesthetized, apathetic, arctic, at rest, autistic, backward, bashful, blank, blunt, bored, bovine, callous, calm, careless, catatonic, chill, chilled, chilly, cloistered, cold, cold as charity, cold-blooded, coldhearted, collected, composed, constrained, contained, controlled, cool, deadpan, detached, discreet, disinterested, dispassionate, distant, drugged, dry, dull, dwindling, ebbing, emotionally dead, emotionless, empty, even-tempered, even-tenored, expressionless, fishy, forbidding, frigid, frosted, frosty, frozen, glassy, guarded, halcyon, hardened, heartless, heedless, hushed, icy, immovable, impassible, impersonal, imperturbable, inaccessible, incurious, indifferent, indurated, inexcitable, inexpressive, inirritable, insensible, insensitive, insentient, insouciant, insusceptible, introverted, isolated, lackadaisical, listless, matter-of-fact, mindless, modest, moldering, nonchalant, nonemotional, objective, obtuse, offish, out of touch, pacific, passionless, patient, peaceable, peaceful, phlegmatic, placid, poker-faced, quiescent, quiet, regardless, remote, removed, reposeful, reposing, repressed, reserved, restful, resting, restrained, reticent, retiring, secluded, self-absorbed, sequestered, sequestrated, serene, sheltered, shrinking, smooth, soulless, spiritless, standoff, standoffish, steady, still, still as death, stillish, stilly, stoic, stoical, stolid, stony, subdued, subsiding, suppressed, taciturn, tranquil, unaffable, unaffectionate, unagitated, unapproachable, uncaring, unconcerned, uncongenial, undemonstrative, undisturbable, undisturbed, unemotional, unexcitable, unexpansive, unexpressive, unfeeling, unflappable, ungenial, unimpassioned, unimpressible, unimpressionable, uninquiring, uninterested, uninvolved, unirritable, unloving, unmindful, unmoved, unnervous, unpassionate, unperturbed, unresponding, unresponsive, unruffled, unstirring, unsusceptible, unsympathetic, untouchable, untroubled, vacant, waning, withdrawn, wooden

Dictionary Results for impassive:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

impassive
    adj 1: having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; not
           easily aroused or excited; "her impassive remoteness";
           "he remained impassive, showing neither interest in nor
           concern for our plight"- Nordhoff & Hall; "a silent
           stolid creature who took it all as a matter of
           course"-Virginia Woolf; "her face showed nothing but
           stolid indifference" [syn: impassive, stolid]
    2: deliberately impassive in manner; "deadpan humor"; "his face
       remained expressionless as the verdict was read" [syn:
       deadpan, expressionless, impassive, poker-faced,
       unexpressive]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Impassive \Im*pas"sive\, a.
   Not susceptible of pain or suffering; apathetic; impassible;
   unmoved.
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         Impassive as the marble in the quarry.   --De Quincey.
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         On the impassive ice the lightings play. --Pope.
   -- Im*pas"sive*ly, adv. -- Im*pas"sive*ness, n.
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