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Adjectives (7)
listless
adj. lacking zest or vivacity; "he was listless and bored"
cool, imperturbable
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"
deadpan, expressionless, poker-faced, unexpressive
adj. deliberately impassive in manner; "deadpan humor"; "his face remained expressionless as the verdict was read"
Fuzzynyms (22)
cool, imperturbable, coolheaded, unflappable
adj. not easily perturbed or excited or upset; marked by extreme calm and composure; "hitherto imperturbable, he now showed signs of alarm"; "an imperturbable self-possession"; "unflappable in a crisis"
detached, dispassionate
adj. used of buildings; standing apart from others; "detached houses"; "a detached garage"
apathetic
adj. showing little or no emotion or animation; "a woman who became active rather than apathetic as she grew older"
listless, languid, languorous
adj. lacking spirit or liveliness; "a lackadaisical attempt"; "a languid mood"; "a languid wave of the hand"; "a hot languorous afternoon"
passionless
adj. not passionate; "passionless observation of human nature"
inert, lethargic, sluggish, torpid
adj. slow and apathetic; "she was fat and inert"; "a sluggish worker"; "a mind grown torpid in old age"
cool, nonchalant
adj. "he doesn't seem excited; on the contrary his demeanor is cool and nonchalant"
calm, imperturbable
adj. not easily perturbed or excited or upset; marked by extreme calm and composure; "hitherto imperturbable, he now showed signs of alarm"; "an imperturbable self-possession"; "unflappable in a crisis"
glassy, vitreous, vitrified
adj. (of ceramics) having the surface made shiny and nonporous by fusing a vitreous solution to it; "glazed pottery"; "glassy porcelain"; "hard vitreous china used for plumbing fixtures"
Synonyms (26)
reluctant
adj. not eager; "foreigners stubbornly uneager to accept our ways"; "fresh from college and uneager for the moment to marry him"; "reluctant to help"
chilly
adj. not characterized by emotion; "a female form in marble--a chilly but ideal medium for depicting abstract virtues"-C.W.Cunningham
matter-of-fact, prosaic
adj. not fanciful or imaginative; "local guides describe the history of various places in matter-of-fact tones"; "a prosaic and unimaginative essay"
philosophical, philosophic
adj. characterized by the attitude of a philosopher; meeting trouble with level-headed detachment; "philosophical resignation"; "a philosophic attitude toward life"
stolid, phlegmatic, phlegmatical
adj. showing little emotion; "a phlegmatic...and certainly undemonstrative man"
stoic, stoical
adj. seeming unaffected by pleasure or pain; impassive; "stoic courage"; "stoic patience"; "a stoical sufferer"
unblinking
adj. showing no visible emotion; "stood unblinking and accepted a sentence of a year"
blank
adj. void of expression; "a blank stare"
close, closemouthed, secretive, tightlipped, close-lipped
adj. inclined to secrecy or reticence about divulging information; "although they knew her whereabouts her friends kept close about it"
guarded, noncommittal, unrevealing
adj. refusing to bind oneself to a particular course of action or view or the like; "her boyfriend was noncommittal about their future together"
incommunicado
adj. without the means or right to communicate; "a prisoner held incommunicado"; "incommunicado political detainees"
mum, silent
adj. failing to speak or communicate etc when expected to; "the witness remained silent"
unpronounceable, unutterable
adj. very difficult to pronounce correctly; "an unpronounceable foreign word"; "unutterable consonant clusters"
Antonyms (1)
emotional
adj. of more than usual emotion; "his behavior was highly emotional"
impassive
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