as in withdrawn
having or showing no emotional warmth or interest in others
The CEO was impersonal during the meeting, focusing only on the business at hand.
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Recent Examples of impersonal
Average, Impersonal Content Too many organizations follow the crowd by using undifferentiated, impersonal content for lead generation and hoping that sending it to huge numbers of people will generate results.
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Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 26 June 2025
Snap president Ronan Harris transformed his leadership approach after his father challenged him to replace impersonal thank-you emails with handwritten notes and face-to-face recognition.
—Massimo Marioni, Fortune, 25 June 2025
For many travelers, flying has become little more than a way to reach a destination—efficient, often impersonal, and rarely memorable.
—Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 20 June 2025
Jaws was criticized for shepherding Hollywood out of the daring age of the late sixties and early seventies into a more impersonal multiplex age, but that’s not the film’s fault: That’s just a measure of how amazing an achievement Jaws actually was.
—Tim Grierson, Vulture, 20 June 2025
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Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 26 June 2025
Snap president Ronan Harris transformed his leadership approach after his father challenged him to replace impersonal thank-you emails with handwritten notes and face-to-face recognition.
—Massimo Marioni, Fortune, 25 June 2025
For many travelers, flying has become little more than a way to reach a destination—efficient, often impersonal, and rarely memorable.
—Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 20 June 2025
Jaws was criticized for shepherding Hollywood out of the daring age of the late sixties and early seventies into a more impersonal multiplex age, but that’s not the film’s fault: That’s just a measure of how amazing an achievement Jaws actually was.
—Tim Grierson, Vulture, 20 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for impersonal
Adjective
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Often, people that indulge in this type of culture are considered anti-social or withdrawn, a stereotype that has been passed around for years.—
Dominick Williams,
Kansas City Star,
26 June 2025
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People become irritable, withdrawn, or hyper-independent.—
Barnaby Lashbrooke,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2025
Adjective
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The house features four bedrooms and one bathrooms. 2. $9.7 million, single-family residence in the 100 block of Pineview Lane A sale has been finalized for the detached house in the 100 block of Pineview Lane in Menlo Park.—
Bay Area Home Report,
Mercury News,
26 June 2025
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Prices hold steady Home prices remained stable, with the median sale price for a detached home rising about 1 percent month-over-month to $665,000.—
Sara B. Hansen,
Denver Post,
10 May 2025
Adjective
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For mid-century home buyers, the costs of our suburban revolution were distant.—
Marina Bolotnikova,
Vox,
7 July 2025
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Since his 1938 debut in Action Comics No. 1, one home for Superman has been America, even though he was born on a distant planet.—
Samantha Baskind,
Smithsonian Magazine,
3 July 2025
Adjective
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With both energy and water being indispensable commodities for future growth of these two societies, hope springs eternal that cooler, more dispassionate heads will eventually prevail and these two nuclear powers will cooperate for the benefit of the entire region.—
Daniel Markind,
Forbes.com,
29 Apr. 2025
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Given its clever production and Stoltenberg’s consciously dispassionate vocals, Big City Life could easily come across as forbiddingly cool.—
Liam Hess,
Vogue,
24 May 2025
Adjective
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The clinical results released to mark the serum’s 10th anniversary reiterate the reason behind the product’s lasting power: a 23% reduction in fine lines, 28% improvement in hydration, and 43% boost in skin vitality.—
Angela Lei,
Forbes.com,
14 July 2025
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The process involves collecting a small piece of skin and sending it to a lab for clinical evaluation.1 Treatment Options There is a range of treatment options for guttate psoriasis.—
Mark Gurarie,
Health,
13 July 2025
Adjective
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Judges are people too, and Your Honor amplifies the tensions between personal and professional for Michael Desiato (Bryan Cranston), a respected New Orleans judge who learns that his teenage son killed another boy in a traffic collision.—
Sara Netzley,
EW.com,
13 July 2025
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This could be in connection to personal, professional or collaborative connections.—
Kyle Thomas,
People.com,
13 July 2025
Adjective
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Thus far, however, Tesla’s board has remained largely silent throughout Musk’s period of political activity.—
Christiaan Hetzner,
Fortune,
7 July 2025
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Half of the speech is devoted to condemning slavery, its defenders and those who remain silent in its face.—
Frederic J. Fransen,
The Orlando Sentinel,
7 July 2025
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“Impersonal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impersonal. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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