Unimpassive

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Not impassive.

    "Jack was called plucky, and he was, but it took all the strength of will that the slim, resolute engineer possessed, to hold him to his purpose, when he faced about and surveyed the unimpassive faces which compassed him."

Example

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"Jack was called plucky, and he was, but it took all the strength of will that the slim, resolute engineer possessed, to hold him to his purpose, when he faced about and surveyed the unimpassive faces which compassed him."

Etymology

From un- + impassive.

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