Dictionary entries for 'impersonal'

Synonyms

im·per·son·al (ĭm-pûŕsə-nəl)

adjective

Lacking personality; not being a person: an impersonal force.
1. Showing no emotion or personality: an aloof, impersonal manner.
2. Having no personal reference or connection: an impersonal remark.
3. Not responsive to or expressive of human personalities: a large, impersonal corporation.
Grammar
1. Of, relating to, or being a verb that expresses the action of an unspecified subject, as in methinks, “it seems to me”; Latin pluit, “it rains”; or, with an expletive subject, it snowed.
2. Indefinite. Used of pronouns.