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Synonyms for emotionless

Grammar : Adj
Spell : ih-moh-shuh n
Phonetic Transcription : ɪˈmoʊ ʃən

Top 10 synonyms for emotionless
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Définition of emotionless

Origin :
  • 1570s, "a (social) moving, stirring, agitation," from Middle French émotion (16c.), from Old French emouvoir "stir up" (12c.), from Latin emovere "move out, remove, agitate," from ex- "out" (see ex-) + movere "to move" (see move (v.)). Sense of "strong feeling" is first recorded 1650s; extended to any feeling by 1808.
  • adj unfeeling, undemonstrative
Example sentences :
  • To all outward seeming, nerveless, emotionless, an abject creature.
  • Extract from : « Within the Law » by Marvin Dana
  • The thin carven features of the children were emotionless, waiting.
  • Extract from : « Now We Are Three » by Joe L. Hensley
  • His face was emotionless as he looked beyond the light into the bisected shell.
  • Extract from : « Made in Tanganyika » by Carl Richard Jacobi
  • "I know," she said, ever emotionless before so much emotion.
  • Extract from : « The Historical Nights' Entertainment » by Rafael Sabatini
  • "And damned, I hope," she answered me in that same cold, emotionless voice.
  • Extract from : « The Historical Nights' Entertainment » by Rafael Sabatini
  • “I told you how to argue,” he said in his emotionless voice.
  • Extract from : « The Crimson Tide » by Robert W. Chambers
  • "We were going to talk about the Space Guard," Lyla said in an emotionless tone.
  • Extract from : « --And Devious the Line of Duty » by Tom Godwin
  • The voice, thin, flat and emotionless, came through a small amplifier.
  • Extract from : « The Status Civilization » by Robert Sheckley
  • And when at last Grimm spoke, the old man's voice was as emotionless as his face.
  • Extract from : « The Return of Peter Grimm » by David Belasco
  • She delivered this for what it was worth, in an uninterested, emotionless voice.
  • Extract from : « IT and Other Stories » by Gouverneur Morris

Antonyms for emotionless

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