单词 | impersonal |
释义 | impersonal (ɪmpɜːʳsənəl ) 1. adjective If you describe a place, organization, or activity as impersonal, you mean that it is not very friendly and makes you feel unimportant because it involves or is used by a large number of people. [disapproval] Before then many children were cared for in large impersonal orphanages. The health service has been criticized for being too impersonal. 2. adjective If you describe someone's behaviour as impersonal, you mean that they do not show any emotion about the person they are dealing with. We must be as impersonal as a surgeon with his knife. I gave Coe an impersonal stare. Synonyms: detached, neutral, dispassionate, cold impersonally adverb The doctor treated Ted gently but impersonally. 3. adjective An impersonal room or statistic does not give any information about the character of the person to whom it belongs or relates. The rest of the room was neat and impersonal. History reduces the carnage to impersonal numbers. Translations: Chinese: 没人情味的 Japanese: 個人にかかわらない |
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