Synonyms and Antonyms of impassive
1
not feeling or showing emotion
- she remained impassive as the officers informed her of her son's death
affectless, apathetic, cold-blooded, emotionless, impassible, numb, passionless, phlegmatic, stoic (or stoical), stolid, undemonstrative, unemotional
cold, cool, dispassionate, unmoved
calm, collected, composed
imperturbable, unflappable
reserved, reticent, taciturn
bland, blank, deadpan, dry, empty, expressionless, inexpressive, stone-faced, straight-faced, vacant, wooden
enigmatic (also enigmatical), impenetrable, inscrutable
aloof, bloodless, detached, indifferent, insensible, unconcerned, unsentimental
impersonal, objective, unresponsive
hard-hearted, pitiless, unfeeling
inconsiderate, thoughtless
blazing, burning, fiery, flaming, glowing, red-hot
ardent, enthusiastic, gung ho, warm-blooded, zealous
gushing, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, sentimental
dramatic, histrionic, melodramatic, overemotional, overheated, perfervid
compassionate, responsive, sympathetic
reactive, sensitive
2
not expressing any emotion
- an impassive expression on the prisoner's face as his sentence was read
dull, vacuous, vague, vapid
enigmatic (also enigmatical), impenetrable, inscrutable, mysterious
motionless, static, still, wooden
reserved, restrained, reticent, taciturn
aloof, apathetic, cold, cool, detached, indifferent, phlegmatic, unresponsive
engaged, interested, responsive
active, alive, animated, bright, busy, dynamic, effervescent, energetic, expansive, exuberant, lively, vivacious
eloquent, revealing, revelatory
gestic, gesticulant, gesticulative, gesticulatory, gestural
emotional, melodramatic, theatrical (also theatric), unreserved, unrestrained
