| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Adjective | 1. Incapable of suffering; inaccessible to harm or pain; not to be touched or moved to passion or sympathy; unfeeling, or not showing feeling; without sensation.[Websters]
2. Being insensible, insensitive, insusceptible or tearless. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. Being unfeeling, callous, heartless or thick-skinned. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. Being insensate or senseless. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. Being indifferent, apathetic, dispassionate, unconcerned or lukewarm. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. Being stolid, dead, dull or torpid. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. Being unmoved or unaffected. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. Being cold, cool or frigid. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. Being impervious or impermeable. [Eve - graph theoretic] 10. Infrequently used base adjective of the adverb impassibly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adverb Form (impassibly) | 1. Rarely used adverbial inflection of the adjective impassible.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "IMPASSIBLE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1782. (references) |
| Etymology:Impassible \Im*pas"si*ble\, adjective. [Latin expression impassibilis; prefix im- not passibilis passable: compare to the French expression impassible. See Passible.]. (references) |
Specialty Definition: IMPASSIBLE
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Adjective] Incapable of pain, passion or suffering; that cannot be affected with pain or uneasiness. Whatever is destitute of sensation is impassible. Though naked and impassible, depart.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [Adjective] Unable to be passed or traversed. The road, under three feet of water, was completely impassible. (references) | 2: [Adjective] Unable to feel. (references) | 3: [Adjective] Unable to suffer. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | Top | ||
