Associations to the word «Impersonal»

Wiktionary

IMPERSONAL, adjective. Not personal; not representing a person; not having personality.
IMPERSONAL, adjective. Lacking warmth or emotion; cold.
IMPERSONAL, adjective. (grammar) (of a verb or other word) Not having a subject, or having a third person pronoun without an antecedent.
IMPERSONAL SUBJECT, noun. A pronoun such as it use as the subject of a clause involving weather, distance, or time
IMPERSONAL SUBJECTS, noun. Plural of impersonal subject
IMPERSONAL VERB, noun. (linguistics) A verb used only in the infinitive or in the third-person. In the third person, the subject is either implied or a dummy.
IMPERSONAL VERBS, noun. Plural of impersonal verb

Dictionary definition

IMPERSONAL, adjective. Not relating to or responsive to individual persons; "an impersonal corporation"; "an impersonal remark".
IMPERSONAL, adjective. Having no personal preference; "impersonal criticism"; "a neutral observer".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats