IMPERTURBABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does imperturbable mean? 

• IMPERTURBABLE (adjective)
  The adjective IMPERTURBABLE has 1 sense:

1. not easily perturbed or excited or upset; marked by extreme calm and composure

  Familiarity information: IMPERTURBABLE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IMPERTURBABLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not easily perturbed or excited or upset; marked by extreme calm and composure

Synonyms:

imperturbable; unflappable

Context example:

unflappable in a crisis

Similar:

composed (serenely self-possessed and free from agitation especially in times of stress)

Derivation:

imperturbability; imperturbableness (calm and unruffled self-assurance)

 Context examples 

“About what?” asked the imperturbable Smoke.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

She thought it would annoy him, but he only folded his arms under his head, with an imperturbable, "That's not bad. Thank you, ladies."

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I believe there never was anybody with such an imperturbable countenance when she chose.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He seems absolutely imperturbable.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

All the rest of that day, and from morning to night afterwards, she sat at that desk, scratching composedly with a hard pen, speaking in the same imperturbable whisper to everybody; never relaxing a muscle of her face, or softening a tone of her voice, or appearing with an atom of her dress astray.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)