Synonyms for unemotional
- adjective
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Phlegmatic — showing little or no feeling
phlegmatic, impassive, emotionless, dispassionate, unfeeling, stolid, passionless, unsentimental, stoical, cold-blooded, dull, cool, philosophical, stony, immovable, impassible, nonemotional, unpassionate, uncaring, indifferent, unmoved, listless
2. Objective — reasoned and objective, involving reason or intellect rather than feelings
3. Reticent
Other
Definitions
- adj. 1
Showing little or no feeling.
- adj. 2
Reasoned and objective, involving reason or intellect rather than feelings.
Related words
- Word family
- unemotionally
Example sentences
- emotionless Yanni was speaking in a calm and emotionless voice.
- dispassionate Tom always sounds so dispassionate, no matter what he's talking about.
- unfeeling He accused me of being an unfeeling father and husband.
- impassive He remained impassive, with a sneer on his face.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| unemotional | rising | |
| emotionless | rising | |
| dispassionate | steady | |
| unfeeling | rising | |
| impassive | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 4 letters
- cool1, dull1
- 5 letters
- stony2
- 6 letters
- chilly2, stolid2
- 7 letters
- unmoved2, stoical
- 8 letters
- clinical3, uncaring3, reticent3, listless2
- 9 letters
- objective3, immovable4, unfeeling3, impassive3
- 10 letters
- restrained2, phlegmatic3, impassible
- 11 letters
- indifferent3, emotionless, passionless
- 12 letters
- nonemotional, unpassionate
- 13 letters
- philosophical5, dispassionate4, unsentimental5
- 15 letters
- undemonstrative
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (stony2 = 2 syllables).