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impers

impers is the abbreviation of impersonal.

Meaning of impersonal

Adjective

impersonal (comparative more impersonal, superlative most impersonal)

  1. Not personal; not representing a person; not having personality.
    • The great tragedians of Greece reveal to us their people's exquisite sense of beauty, and their faith in an awful, an almighty, but an impersonal power, called Fate1853, James Stephen, On Desultory and Systematic Reading: A Lecture
  2. Lacking warmth or emotion; cold.
    • She sounded impersonal as she gave her report of the Nazi death camps.
  3. Not having a subject, or having a third person pronoun without an antecedent.
    • The verb “rain” is impersonal in sentences like “It’s raining.”

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Questions about impers

What is impers the abbreviation of?
Impers is the abbreviation of impersonal.

Words near impers in the dictionary

  1. impermissibly
  2. impermissive
  3. impermissively
  4. impermissiveness
  5. impermutable
  6. impers
  7. impers.
  8. imperscriptable
  9. imperscrutable
  10. imperseverant
  11. impersistence

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