Definitions for impersonal

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impersonal im·per·son·al

Spelling: [im-pur-suh-nl]

IPA: /ɪmˈpɜr sə nl/

Impersonal is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 1603 anagrams from letters in impersonal (aeilmnoprs).

Definitions for impersonal

adjective

1. not personal; without reference or connection to a particular person:
2. having no personality; devoid of human character or traits:
3. lacking human emotion or warmth:
4. Grammar. (of a verb) having only third person singular forms and rarely if ever accompanied by an expressed subject, as Latin pluit “it is raining,” or regularly accompanied by an empty subject word, as English to rain in It is raining. (of a pronoun or pronominal reference) indefinite, as French on “one.”.

noun

1. Grammar. an impersonal verb or pronoun.

Origin of impersonal

From the Late Latin word impersōnālis, dating back to 1510-20. See im-², personal

Examples for impersonal

He repeated this in a voice of impersonal courtesy, and went on to the next group.

In other words, markets were impersonal, but that was good, because sometimes personal ties were cruel and oppressive.

But over the 20th century, they evolved into something more mechanical and impersonal.

Beautiful she had seemed to him before, but beautiful with a sort of impersonal perfection.

That third party or common nature is not social; it is impersonal; is God.

She was calm and impersonal during these interviews, and he tried to be so.

I think that history is certainly made by some impersonal forces, on occasion.

For the difference between the personal and impersonal was not marked to him as to ourselves.

Staff members can be rough and impersonal at times, particularly in high-stress areas like emergency rooms.

Many found this to echo a Stepford Wife mentality of women: Women like stories and language, not impersonal, cold, manly numbers!