impersonal
IPA: ɪmpˈɝsʌnʌɫ
noun
- (grammar) An impersonal word or construct.
adjective
- Not personal; not representing a person; not having personality.
- Lacking warmth or emotion; cold.
- (grammar, of a verb or other word) Not having a subject, or having a third person pronoun without an antecedent.
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Examples of "impersonal" in Sentences
- He was the impersonal and representative man.
- The downside is cost and impersonal treatment.
- The real problem is that the internet is so impersonal.
- The impersonal absolute is considered to be the supreme.
- The tone is somewhat moralistic, and not impersonal at all.
- The impersonal passive deletes the subject of an intransitive verb.
- In general, the architecture was to be either pompous and impersonal.
- So neat, so clean, so impersonal is exactly the relationship of the majority of readers here to the soldiers.
- Nominalisations allow us the option of being more abstract and impersonal, which is why they are useful in academic writing.
- That is what he calls the impersonal force of destruction that paints "destroy" (chai) on buildings without a public discussion.
- Each of these changes increases the gains from specialization and exchange; they also create mechanisms that underpin impersonal exchange.
- If somehow the metrics here were impersonal, that is, they had some sort of control to make them reasonably objective, that would garner far less opposition, methinks.
- The present article shall focus on a main organizational challenge faced by the two companies, the facilitation of long-term impersonal cooperation between active entrepreneurs and passive investors.
- This was an affirmation that all these divine realities what we would refer to as impersonal "forces of nature" were in fact united in a single "being" that encompassed all of them and of whom all of them were an expression.
- Latin to add weight to the authority of one’s opinion, one might (the impersonal is also helpful for establishing an academic tone) suggest that “at” used as a sentential post-fix is a locative particle, which helps distinguish the use of “where” from alternative directional uses such as “Where is he going TO?” or “Where is she coming FROM?”, and which provides parallelism to those constructions.