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unemotional
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unemotional
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not responsive |
| Synonyms: | along for the ride, apathetic, blah*, callous, chill*, cold, coldhearted, cool, deadpan, dispassionate, emotionless, flat, frigid, glacial, going with the flow, hard-boiled, hard-hearted, heartless, impassive, indifferent, insensitive, laid-back*, listless, marble, obdurate, passionless, phlegmatic, quiet, reserved, reticent, rolling with the punches, thick-skinned, uncompassionate, undemonstrative, unexcitable, unfeeling, unimpressionable, unresponsive, unsympathetic |
| Antonyms: | caring, emotional, excitable, feeling, responsive |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | bland |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | friendly, gracious |
| Synonyms: | affable, amiable, civilized, congenial, courteous, gentle, good-natured, ingratiating, oily, pleasant, smooth, suave, unctuous, unemotional, urbane |
| Antonyms: | blase, dull, unfriendly, ungracious |
| Main Entry: | bloodless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unfeeling |
| Synonyms: | anesthetic, cold, coldhearted, dull, impassive, indolent, insensible, insensitive, languid, lazy, lifeless, listless, passionless, slow, sluggish, spiritless, torpid, unemotional, unkind |
| Antonyms: | caring, feeling, sensitive |
| Main Entry: | calm |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | composed, cool (animate) |
| Synonyms: | aloof, amiable, amicable, civil, collected, cool as cucumber, cool-headed, detached, disinterested, dispassionate, equable, gentle, impassive, imperturbable, inscrutable, kind, laid-back*, levelheaded, listless, moderate, neutral, patient, placid, pleased, poised, relaxed, restful, satisfied, sedate, self-possessed, serene, still, temperate, unconcerned, undisturbed, unemotional, unexcitable, unexcited, unflappable, unimpressed, unmoved, unruffled, untroubled |
| Antonyms: | agitated, angry, excitable, excited, furious, mad, passionate, roused, ruffled, wild, worried |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | chill |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unfriendly, aloof |
| Synonyms: | cool, depressing, discouraging, dismal, dispiriting, distant, emotionless, formal, frigid, glacial, hateful, hostile, icy, indifferent, reserved, solitary, standoffish, stony, uncompanionable, unemotional, ungenial, unhappy, unresponsive, unwelcoming, wintry, withdrawn |
| Antonyms: | friendly, responsive, sympathetic, warm |
| Main Entry: | clinical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dispassionate |
| Synonyms: | analytic, antiseptic, cold, detached, disinterested, emotionless, impersonal, objective, scientific, unemotional |
| Antonyms: | feeling, passionate, subjective |
| Main Entry: | cold-blooded |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cruel, heartless |
| Synonyms: | barbarous, brutal, callous, cold, dispassionate, hard-boiled, hard-hearted, hardened, imperturbable, inhuman, matter-of-fact, merciless, obdurate, pitiless, relentless, ruthless, savage, steely, stony-hearted, uncompassionate, unemotional, unfeeling, unmoved |
| Notes: | cold-blooded (poikilothermic, poikilothermal) is used for creatures whose blood takes on the temperature of their environment; warm-blooded (homoiothermic, homeothermal) is having a fairly steady body temperature governed by the thermotaxic nerve mechanism |
| Antonyms: | compassionate, demonstrative, feeling, friendly, merciful, nice, sympathetic, warm-blooded |
| Main Entry: | cold-hearted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unfeeling |
| Synonyms: | cold, detached, hard, hard-hearted, harsh, heartless, indifferent, insensitive, stony-hearted, uncaring, unemotional, unfriendly, unkind, unloving, unsympathetic |
| Antonyms: | warm-hearted |
| Main Entry: | cool |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | calm, collected |
| Synonyms: | assured, composed, coolheaded, deliberate, detached, dispassionate, impassive, imperturbable, levelheaded, nonchalant, philosophical, phlegmatic, placid, quiet, relaxed, self-controlled, self-possessed, serene, stolid, together, tranquil, unagitated, unemotional, unexcited, unflappable, unruffled |
| Antonyms: | agitated, annoyed, excited, upset |
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