impersonal
impersonal is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Not personal; not representing a person; not having personality. An almighty but impersonal power, called Fate. Sir J. Stephen. Impersonal verb (Gram.), a verb used with an indeterminate subject, commonly, in English, with the impersonal pronoun it; as, it rains; it snows; methinks (it seems to me). Many verbs which are not strictly impersonal are often used impersonally; as, it goes well with him.
- 2.That which wants personality; specifically (Gram.), an impersonal verb.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- about
- abroad
- all
- always
- and
- anybody
- article
- average
- besetting
- better
- blood
- bodily
- body
- broad
- brute
- catholic
- catholical
- catholicism
- catholicity
- collective
- common
- comprehensive
- condition
- corporal
- corporality
- corporeal
- corporeity
- corpus
- covered
- customary
- dispersed
- dragnet
- ecumenical
- element
- encyclopedical
- epidemic
- every
- everybody
- everyone
- experimental
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Definition-first questions whose answer is impersonal.
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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