单词	impersonal
释义	impersonalim‧per‧son‧al /ɪmˈpɜːsənəl $ -ɜːr-/ adjective Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES I had no desire to work for a large, impersonal organization. Just signing your name on a Christmas card seems too impersonal. The Church has been criticized for being too big and impersonal. They just handed over the keys and walked out - it was all so impersonal. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Bawdiness has been toned down and feasting reduced to sadly impersonal uniformity. Chid's letters are absolutely impersonal. He was methodical, almost impersonal. I had hoped that the cool impersonal air in the Saltine Motel Restaurant would bring me to my senses. It was an impersonal system; it made no difference who you were, so long as you could master its rules. The house felt as if it had been converted to institutional use, someplace impersonal and chill. The whole thing was conducted on an impersonal level. There are fewer beautiful people out there who want to get up close and impersonal with us. Thesaurus THESAURUSplace/organization► unfriendly making you feel as though you are not wanted: · The report found that the church can seem unfriendly to outsiders. ► unwelcoming unfriendly – used especially about the physical characteristics or appearance of something: · The entrance to the factory is cold, bare, and unwelcoming.· The new fence is just one example of the city’s attempt to make public spaces unwelcoming to the homeless. ► impersonal lacking the normal friendly relations between people who work or do business together: · I had no desire to work for a large impersonal organization.· They just handed over the keys and walked out – it was all so impersonal. ► forbidding unfriendly, uncomfortable, and a little frightening, so that you do not want to go there: · The school was a rather forbidding building surrounded by a high steel fence. Longman Language Activatorwhen a particular place or situation seems unfriendly► unfriendly/not friendly · I don't like going to that bar - it's not very friendly.unfriendly/not friendly to/towards · The city has a reputation for being unfriendly to minorities. ► unwelcoming making you feel that you are not wanted: · The entrance to the factory is cold, bare, and unwelcoming.unwelcoming to/towards: · The new fence is just one example of the city's attempt to make public spaces unwelcoming to the homeless. ► inhospitable unfriendly and difficult to feel relaxed in: · The tribe has lived for generations in the inhospitable mountain regions of the country.inhospitable to/towards: · The brokerage firm has always been extremely inhospitable to women. ► impersonal a place or situation that is impersonal lacks the normal friendly relations between people who work or do business together, as if such feelings were considered unimportant: · They just handed over the keys and walked out - it was all so impersonal.· I had no desire to work for a large, impersonal organization. ► forbidding a forbidding place seems unfriendly, uncomfortable, and a little frightening, so that you do not want to go there: · The school was a large, rather forbidding building.· The wood-panelled den looked dark and forbidding. WORD SETS► Grammar abbr., abbreviate, verbabbreviation, nounabstract noun, nounaccusative, nounactive, adjectiveadj., adjective, nounadv., adverb, nounadverbial, adjectiveaffix, nounantecedent, nounapposition, nounarticle, nounaspect, nounattributive, adjectiveaux., auxiliary, nounauxiliary verb, nouncase, nouncausal, adjectiveclause, nouncollective noun, nouncommon noun, nouncomparative, adjectivecomparison, nouncomplement, nouncomplex, adjectivecompound, nounconcord, nounconcrete noun, nounconditional, adjectiveconditional, nounconj., conjugate, verbconjugation, nounconjunction, nounconnective, nounconstruction, nouncontinuous, adjectivecontraction, nouncoordinate, adjectivecoordinating conjunction, nouncopula, nouncountable, adjectivecount noun, noundative, noundeclension, noundefinite article, noundemonstrative, adjectivedemonstrative pronoun, noundependent clause, noundeterminer, noundirect discourse, noundirect object, noundirect speech, noundisjunctive, adjectiveditransitive, adjectivedouble negative, noun-ed, suffixending, noun-est, suffix-eth, suffixfeminine, adjectivefinite, adjectiveform, nounfunction word, nounfuture, adjectivegender, noungenitive, noungerund, noungradable, adjectivegrammar, noungrammarian, noungrammatical, adjectivehistoric present, nounhomonym, nounhomophone, nounimperative, adjectiveimperative, nounimpersonal, adjectiveindefinite article, nounindependent clause, nounindicative, nounindicative, adjectiveindirect discourse, nounindirect object, nounindirect speech, nouninfinitive, nouninflect, verbinflected, adjectiveinflection, noun-ing, suffixintensifier, nouninterjection, nouninterrogative, adjectiveinterrogative, nounintransitive, adjectivelinking verb, nounmain clause, nounmasculine, adjectivemodal, nounmodal auxiliary, nounmodal verb, nounmodifier, nounmodify, verbmood, nounn., neuter, adjectivenominal, adjectivenominative, nounnon-finite, adjectivenon-restrictive, adjectivenoun, nounnumber, nounobject, nounparse, verbparticipial, adjectiveparticiple, nounparticle, nounpartitive, nounpart of speech, nounpassive, adjectivepassivize, verbpast, adjectivepast participle, nounpast perfect, nounperfect participle, nounperiphrasis, nounpersonal pronoun, nounphrasal verb, nounphrase, nounpl., plural, nounplural, adjectiveplurality, nounpossessive, adjectivepossessive, nounpredeterminer, nounpredicate, nounpredicative, adjectiveprefix, nounprefix, verbprep., preposition, nounprepositional phrase, nounpres., present participle, nounprogressive, adjectivepronominal, adjectivepronoun, nounproper noun, nounpunctuate, verbpunctuation, nounqualifier, nounquantifier, nounquestion tag, nounreflexive, adjectiveregular, adjectiverelative clause, nounrelative pronoun, nounreported speech, nounrestrictive clause, nounroot, nounrule, nounrun-on sentence, nounsecond person, nounsemicolon, nounsentence, nounsentence adverb, nounsingular, adjectivesolecism, nounsplit infinitive, nounstative, adjectivestem, nounsubject, nounsubjective, adjectivesubjunctive, nounsubordinate clause, nounsubstantive, nounsuffix, nounsuperlative, adjectivesyntactic, adjectivesyntax, nountag, nountense, nountransitive, adjectiveuncountable, adjectivev., variant, nounverb, nounverbal, adjectivevocative, noun Word family WORD FAMILYnounpersonpersonalitypersonapersonagethe personalspersonificationpersonneladjectivepersonal ≠ impersonalpersonalizedpersonableverbpersonalizepersonifyadverbpersonally ≠ impersonally 1not showing any feelings of sympathy, friendliness etc:  Business letters do not have to be impersonal and formal. Sometimes she seems a very impersonal, even unkind, mother.► see thesaurus at unfriendly2a place or situation that is impersonal does not make people feel that they are important:  I hate staying in hotels; they’re so impersonal. a formal and impersonal style of management3technical in grammar, an impersonal sentence or verb is one where the subject is represented by ‘it’ or ‘there’, as in the sentence ‘It rained all day’—impersonally adverb
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