| 单词 | impersonal |
| 释义 | impersonal (once / 1680 pages) adj If you're impersonal, you're neutral — you're not showing your feelings or your preference. If you choose people to be on your team by closing your eyes and pointing, that's impersonal — you're not picking your friends or the best players. Impersonal can be good. An impersonal rejection is easier to take than one that specifies precisely why you, in particular, are a reject. But if your class is so impersonal, your teacher doesn't even know your name, that’s not good. A wedding that doesn't include details about the bride and groom would be impersonal and maybe more like a business meeting than a celebration. Impersonal comes from the Latin roots in- (or im-), "not," and personalis, "of a person." WORD FAMILYimpersonal: impersonally+/depersonalise: depersonalisation, depersonalising/depersonalize: depersonalization, depersonalized, depersonalizing/interpersonal: interpersonally/nonperson: nonpersons/person: foreperson, nonperson, personable, personal, personhood, personify, persons, unperson/personable: personableness, personabler, personably/personal: impersonal, interpersonal, nonpersonal, personalise, personality, personalize, personally, personals/personalise: depersonalise, personalised, personalising/personality: personalities/personalize: depersonalize, personalized, personalizes, personalizing/personification: personifications/personify: personification, personified, personifies, personifying/unperson: unpersons USAGE EXAMPLESUntil that point, the movie suffers from literary-ism, a mode of direction that illustrates a set of events with a relentlessly expository, nearly impersonal tone. The New Yorker(Dec 27, 2016) Many of them also felt that a group setting was too impersonal to do that successfully. Salon(Dec 24, 2016) The film glimpses European fractures and follies through a personal story that remains as schematic and impersonal as a position paper. The New Yorker(Dec 21, 2016) 1adj not relating to or responsive to individual persons an impersonal corporation an impersonal remark Syn|Ant nonpersonal lacking personality personal concerning or affecting a particular person or his or her private life and personality ad hominemappealing to personal considerations (rather than to fact or reason) face-to-facein each other's presence individual, privateconcerning one person exclusively individualised, individualized, personalised, personalizedmade for or directed or adjusted to a particular individual in the flesh, in-personan appearance carried out personally in someone else's physical presence ain, ownbelonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself); preceded by a possessive personalizedpointedly referring to or concerning a person's individual personality or intimate affairs especially offensively person-to-personinvolving direct communication or contact between persons or parties privateconcerning things deeply private and personal privateconfined to particular persons or groups or providing privacy 2adj having no personal preference impersonal criticism Syn neutral nonsubjective, objective undistorted by emotion or personal bias; based on observable phenomena |
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