impersonal

adjective · nounB2

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Tính từ

adjective

Comparative

more impersonal

Superlative

most impersonal

1.
Not personal; not representing a person; not having personality.
2.
Lacking warmth or emotion; cold.
She sounded impersonal as she gave her report of the Nazi death camps.
3.
(grammar, of a verb or other word) Not having a subject, or having a third person pronoun without an antecedent.
The verb “rain” is impersonal in sentences like “It’s raining.”
Đồng nghĩa: monopersonal, unipersonal

Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

impersonals

1.
(grammar) An impersonal word or construct.

Từ liên quan

Đồng nghĩa

monopersonal unipersonal pleonastic

Cùng gốc / liên quan

impersonaliseimpersonalismimpersonalistimpersonalityimpersonalizationimpersonalizeimpersonallyimpersonalnessultraimpersonalimpersonal verbimpersonal passiveimpersonal subjectpersonal

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Nguồn gốc từ

From French impersonnel, from Latin impersōnālis, from im- (not) + persōnālis (personal), equivalent to im- + personal.