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Definitions for: Impassive [adj] deliberately impassive in manner; "deadpan humor"; "his face remained expressionless as the verdict was read"
[adj] 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"
Webster (1913) Definition: Im*pas"sive, a.
Not susceptible of pain or suffering; apathetic; impassible;
unmoved.
Impassive as the marble in the quarry. --De Quincey.
On the impassive ice the lightings play. --Pope.
-- Im*pas"sive*ly, adv. -- Im*pas"sive*ness, n.
Synonyms: deadpan, expressionless, incommunicative, poker-faced, stolid, uncommunicative, unemotional, unexpressive
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