UNEMOTIONAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unemotional mean? 

• UNEMOTIONAL (adjective)
  The adjective UNEMOTIONAL has 2 senses:

1. unsusceptible to or destitute of or showing no emotion

2. cool and formal in manner

  Familiarity information: UNEMOTIONAL used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNEMOTIONAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Unsusceptible to or destitute of or showing no emotion

Similar:

chilly (not characterized by emotion)

dry (lacking warmth or emotional involvement)

impassive; stolid (having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; not easily aroused or excited)

philosophic; philosophical (characterized by the attitude of a philosopher; meeting trouble with level-headed detachment)

phlegmatic; phlegmatical (showing little emotion)

stoic; stoical (seeming unaffected by pleasure or pain; impassive)

unblinking (showing no visible emotion)

Also:

unaffected; unmoved; untouched (emotionally unmoved)

unmoving (not arousing emotions)

passionless (not passionate)

cool (psychologically cool and unenthusiastic; unfriendly or unresponsive or showing dislike)

Attribute:

emotionalism; emotionality (emotional nature or quality)

Antonym:

emotional (of more than usual emotion)

Derivation:

unemotionality (absence of emotion)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Cool and formal in manner

Synonyms:

restrained; reticent; unemotional

Similar:

undemonstrative (not given to open expression of emotion)

 Context examples 

For the rest, the man’s life moved in a narrow and conventional circle, for his habits were quiet and his nature unemotional.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

All four planets are in Capricorn, a cool, unemotional, objective earth sign.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

His aversion to women and his disinclination to form new friendships were both typical of his unemotional character, but not more so than his complete suppression of every reference to his own people.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)