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unimpassive

unimpassive adjective: not impassive.

Adjective

unimpassive (comparative more unimpassive, superlative most unimpassive)

  1. Not impassive.
    • Jack was called plucky, and he was, but it took all the strength of will that the slim, resolute engineer possessed, to hold him to his purpose, when he faced about and surveyed the unimpassive faces which compassed him.1899, Martha Frye Boggs, Jack Crews, page 237
    • Yet the lecturer exhibited no sign of physical emotion, used no gesture, and the unimpassive face with the veiled eye added infinitely to the solemnity of the discourse, which seemed hieratic and liturgical rather than oratorical.1911, The Cornhill Magazine, page 534

Forms of unimpassive

comparativemore unimpassive
superlativemost unimpassive

Origin of unimpassive

From un- + impassive.

Questions about unimpassive

What does unimpassive mean?
Unimpassive means not impassive.
What part of speech is unimpassive?
Unimpassive is an adjective.

Words near unimpassive in the dictionary

  1. unimpartible
  2. unimpassionate
  3. unimpassioned
  4. unimpassionedly
  5. unimpassionedness
  6. unimpassive
  7. unimpatient
  8. unimpatiently
  9. unimpeachability
  10. unimpeachable
  11. unimpeachableness

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