emotionless

C2+ Topic:Describing Qualities

US /ɪˈmoʊʃənləs/ UK /ɪˈməʊʃənləs/ See IPA manual

Meanings

1

adj
showing or feeling no emotion; impassive

He delivered the verdict in a flat, emotionless voice.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

1 adj · showing or feeling no... impassive unfeeling cold stolid apathetic detached

Opposites

emotional passionate expressive sentimental

Word family

Derived forms emotionlesslyemotionlessness

Related forms emotion emotionalemoteemotive

Etymology

From emotion (from French émotion, from Latin emovere 'to move out, stir up') + the privative suffix -less.

emovere Latin movere Latin

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Topics

Describing Qualities Word Formation & Derivatives

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# emotionless

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C2+
**Part of speech:** adj
**IPA (US):** /ɪˈmoʊʃənləs/
**IPA (UK):** /ɪˈməʊʃənləs/

## Meanings
1. showing or feeling no emotion; impassive

## Examples
- He delivered the verdict in a flat, emotionless voice.

## Synonyms
- impassive
- unfeeling
- cold
- stolid
- apathetic
- detached

## Antonyms
- emotional
- passionate
- expressive
- sentimental

## Derived Forms
- emotionlessly
- emotionlessness

## Related Forms
- emotion
- emotional
- emote
- emotive

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: emovere
- Root: movere

## Etymology
From emotion (from French émotion, from Latin emovere 'to move out, stir up') + the privative suffix -less.

## AI Etymology
Emotionless comes from emotion (from French émotion, from Latin emovere 'to move out, stir up') + the privative suffix -less. Morphologically, the form is compositional, with the named elements combining to produce the modern spelling and sense. In present use, it is used as an adjective meaning "showing or feeling no emotion; impassive", so the historical material remains connected with the current sense rather than standing as bare ancestry. The wider English family includes derivatives such as emotionlessly and emotionlessness and related forms such as emotion, emotional, emote, and emotive, showing how the same historical material continues to organize neighboring vocabulary. The named historical forms include Latin emovere and Latin movere, keeping the history tied to concrete forms rather than a loose resemblance. Its semantic neighborhood is marked by impassive, unfeeling, cold, and stolid on one side and contrasts such as emotional, passionate, and expressive on the other, locating the modern specialization without adding a new origin story.

## Topics
- Describing Qualities
- Word Formation & Derivatives

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