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unemotional

adj · 4 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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1

adj

Meaning 1

Showing little or no feeling.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • an unemotional person

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: clinical, dispassionate, alexithymic, apathistical, dull, phlegmatic, cold-blooded, cold-hearted, dead inside, emotionless, immovable, impassible, impassive, insensible, nonemotional, nonfeeling, nonpassionate, nonsentimental, stolid, unemotional, unfeeling, unmovable, unpassionate, unsentimental

Antonyms: passionate

2

adj

Meaning 2

Reasoned and objective, involving reason or intellect rather than feelings.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: clinical, objective

Antonyms: none provided

3

adjective

Meaning 3

unsusceptible to or destitute of or showing no emotion

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: emotional

4

adjective satellite

Meaning 4

cool and formal in manner

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: restrained, reticent

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- Proto-Indo-European *h1éǵh Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h1éǵhs Proto-Italic *eks Latin ex Latin ex- Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh1- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Indo-European *m(y)owh1éyetider. Proto-Italic *moweō Latin moveō Latin ēmoveō Vulgar Latin *exmovēre Old French esmovoir Middle French esmouvoir Middle French emotionbor. English emotion English -al English emotional English unemotional From un- + emotional.

Across languages

Translations

7 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • German: nüchtern — showing no or little emotion
  • Ancient Greek: ἀπαθής (apathḗs) — showing no or little emotion
  • Irish: fuarchúiseach — showing no or little emotion
  • Māori: whakamoroki — showing no or little emotion
  • Russian: неэмоциона́льный (neemocionálʹnyj) — showing no or little emotion
  • Russian: безэмоциона́льный малоэмоциона́льный (bezɛmocionálʹnyj) — showing no or little emotion
  • Ukrainian: беземоці́йний (bezemocíjnyj) — showing no or little emotion