IMPERSONAL Synonyms: 127 Similar and Opposite Words

impersonal

adjective

as in withdrawn

having or showing no emotional warmth or interest in others The CEO was impersonal during the meeting, focusing only on the business at hand.

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Recent Examples of impersonal But there’s an innate slickness to drone footage that can turn a shot of, say, a South Texas Starbucks into a joke, and there’s a mechanical quality to the way drones glide through the air that, even if controlled by a human, feels impersonal — a view from nowhere. —

Alison Willmore, Vulture, 1 May 2026 Its few lasting effects are impersonal and clichéd. —

Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2026 Where there was once an insistence on an impersonal space, there is now an acknowledgment that the therapist does not have to cloak their identity in a benign anonymity. —

Wendy C. Ortiz, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2026 Use Simple Rituals to Keep Their Memories Alive Legacy doesn’t always have to look like big, elaborate events—for younger kids, a memorial service, for instance, might even feel overwhelming and impersonal. —

Halona Black, Parents, 10 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for impersonal

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Adjective

His is a more enlightened era, but Hannes, lonely and withdrawn, doesn’t share his classmates’ interest in campus sit-ins and free love.

— Justin Chang, New Yorker, 8 May 2026
Lost was the fact that a grid-connection request is just the start of a multiyear process that involves permitting and legal review and often ends in withdrawn or downsized projects.

— IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 7 May 2026