Sekirov Dictionary

impersonal

/ɪmˈpɝsənəl/

adjective 3
noun 1
forms 3

adjective3

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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 Fate — 1853
•
Lacking warmth or emotion; cold.
- She sounded impersonal as she gave her report of the Nazi death camps.
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Not having a subject, or having a third person pronoun without an antecedent.
- The verb “rain” is impersonal in sentences like “It’s raining.”

noun1

An impersonal word or construct.

forms

impersonals · more impersonal · most impersonal

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