impersonal

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
美 /ɪmˈpɝsənəl/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An impersonal word or construct.
形容词 adj.
  1. Not personal; not representing a person; not having personality.
    — The great tragedians of Greece reveal to us their people's exquisite sense of beauty, and their faith in an awful, an almighty, but an impersonal power, called Fate
  2. Lacking warmth or emotion; cold.
    — She sounded impersonal as she gave her report of the Nazi death camps.
  3. Not having a subject, or having a third person pronoun without an antecedent.
    — The verb “rain” is impersonal in sentences like “It’s raining.”

词形变化

more impersonal comparative most impersonal superlative impersonals plural

词汇关系

衍生词
impersonalise impersonalism impersonalist impersonality impersonalization impersonalize impersonally impersonalness impersonal passive impersonal subject impersonal verb ultraimpersonal
相关词
personal

词源

词源 1
From French impersonnel, from Latin impersōnālis, from im- (“not”) + persōnālis (“personal”), equivalent to im- + personal.
词源 2
From French impersonnel, from Latin impersōnālis, from im- (“not”) + persōnālis (“personal”), equivalent to im- + personal.
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