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Emotionless   Listen
adjective
emotionless  adj.  
1.
Unsusceptible to, destitute of, or showing no emotion; unmoved by feeling. Opposite of emotional; as, he kept his emotionless objectivity and faith in the cause he served. (Narrower terms: matter-of-fact, prosaic; philosophical, philosophic; phlegmatic, phlegmatical, stolid; stoic, stoical; unblinking) Also See: cool, passionless, unmoved(predicate), unmoving.
Synonyms: unemotional, passionless.






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"Emotionless" Quotes from Famous Books



... informed of the occurrence," she answered, her tone as perfectly emotionless as though she had been discussing the veriest trifle. "We were content to recognize Major Delahaye as representing those who have the right to dispose of Isobel's future. His death, however, alters many things. Isobel will be placed ...
— The Master Mummer • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... eyes of the king stared at the horror-frozen captives. One long tentacle lifted slowly upward, and their captors at once started towards the throne with them. The score of octopi on each side stilled their weaving arms. A battery of emotionless eyes drilled into Wells' paralyzed body. He felt faint. Unquestionably the horrible ceremony was leading up to some ...
— Astounding Stories, February, 1931 • Various

... watching the door keenly as they came out. What creatures they were, lint-and-dust-covered to their very eyes. The yellow, hard, emotionless faces of the men, the haggard, weary ones of the girls and women and little children! Never had she seen such white people before, such hollow eyes, with dark, bloodless rings beneath them, sunken cheeks, tanned to the color of oiled hickory, much used. ...
— The Bishop of Cottontown - A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills • John Trotwood Moore

... to require support of the girl's hand, or she had not observed that of the caller. Her face, always emotionless, was repellent in its composure as she said; "Father is just inside in his office with a native, and I fancy it's one of the usual dark things of mystery, for he asked me to sit here by the window that he might have both air and privacy; ...
— Caste • W. A. Fraser

... how to argue," he said in his emotionless voice. "Anybody can talk with their mouths." And he turned on his heel and went back to his ...
— The Crimson Tide • Robert W. Chambers

... said La Boulaye, in that stern, emotionless voice that was becoming characteristic of him, "since you have acquainted yourself with the contents of the letter you stole from the man you murdered, you cannot be in doubt as ...
— The Trampling of the Lilies • Rafael Sabatini



Words linked to "Emotionless" :   cold, passionless



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