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ALL meanings of impersonal

im·per·son·al
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  • adjective impersonal inhuman, faceless 1
  • adjective impersonal grammar: of unspecified subject 1
  • noun impersonal Not influenced by, showing, or involving personal feelings. 1
  • adjective impersonal not personal; without reference or connection to a particular person: an impersonal remark. 1
  • adjective impersonal having no personality; devoid of human character or traits: an impersonal deity. 1
  • adjective impersonal lacking human emotion or warmth: an impersonal manner. 1
  • adjective impersonal 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.”. 1
  • noun impersonal Grammar. an impersonal verb or pronoun. 1
  • adjective impersonal If you describe a place, organization, or activity as impersonal, you mean that it is not very friendly and makes you feel unimportant because it involves or is used by a large number of people. 0
  • adjective impersonal If you describe someone's behaviour as impersonal, you mean that they do not show any emotion about the person they are dealing with. 0
  • adjective impersonal An impersonal room or statistic does not give any information about the character of the person to whom it belongs or relates. 0
  • adjective impersonal without reference to any individual person; objective 0
  • adjective impersonal devoid of human warmth or sympathy; cold 0
  • adjective impersonal not having human characteristics 0
  • adjective impersonal (of a verb) having no logical subject. Usually in English the pronoun it is used in such cases as a grammatical subject, as for example in It is raining 0
  • adjective impersonal (of a pronoun) not denoting a person 0
  • adjective impersonal not personal 0
  • adjective impersonal without connection or reference to any particular person 0
  • adjective impersonal not existing as a person 0
  • adjective impersonal not showing human feelings, esp. sympathy or warmth 0
  • adjective impersonal designating or of a verb occurring only in the third person singular, in English generally with it as the indefinite subject (Ex.: “it is snowing”) 0
  • abbreviation IMPERSONAL indefinite 0
  • noun impersonal an impersonal verb or pronoun 0
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