Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - impersonal
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Impersonal
impersonal
1. If you describe a place, organization, or activity as impersonal, you mean that it is not very friendly and makes you feel unimportant because it involves or is used by a large number of people. Before then many children were cared for in large impersonal orphanages... ADJ c darkgreen]disapproval 2. If you describe someone’s behaviour as impersonal, you mean that they do not show any emotion about the person they are dealing with. We must be as impersonal as a surgeon with his knife... ADJ • impersonally The doctor treated Ted gently but impersonally. ADV 3. An impersonal room or statistic does not give any information about the character of the person to whom it belongs or relates. The rest of the room was neat and impersonal... ADJ
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adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Late Latin ~is, from Latin in- + Late Latin personalis personal Date: 15th century 1. a. denoting the verbal action of an unspecified agent and hence used with no expressed subject (as methinks) or with a merely formal subject (as rained in it rained) b. of a pronoun indefinite 2. a. having no personal reference or connection ~ criticism b. not engaging the human personality or emotions the machine as compared with the hand tool is an ~ agency — John Dewey c. not existing as a person ; not having human qualities or characteristics • ~ity noun • ~ly adverb ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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adj. 1 having no personality. 2 having no personal feeling or reference. 3 Gram. a (of a verb) used only with a formal subject (usu. it) and expressing an action not attributable to a definite subject (e.g. it is snowing). b (of a pronoun) = INDEFINITE. Derivatives impersonality n. impersonally adv. Etymology: LL impersonalis (as IN-(1), PERSONAL) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. грам. безличный глагол 2. беспристрастный, объективный an impersonal point of view —- объективная точка зрения impersonal interest in literature —- бескорыстный интерес к литературе 3. обезличенный impersonal criticism —- обезличенная критика 4. бесстрастный, равнодушный, безразличный 5. безликий, безличный slaves were regarded as impersonal men —- рабов не считали за людей 6. грам. безличный impersonal constructions —- безличные обороты ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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adj. 1) безличный (тж. грам.); не относящийся к определенному лицу 2) бескорыстный; объективный, беспристрастный 3) обезличенный, безликий ...Англо-русский словарь
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~ adj 1 not showing any feelings of sympathy, friendliness etc (She left a short impersonal note, saying that she was leaving.) 2 a place or situation that is impersonal does not make people feel that they are important or valued (a large impersonal city | Health care has become increasingly bureaucratic and impersonal.) 3 technical in grammar, an impersonal sentence or v is one where the subject is represented by a word such as `it', as in the sentence `It rained all day' (- compare personal1) - impersonally adv ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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