not personal; without reference or connection to a particular person: an impersonal remark.
2.
having no personality; devoid of human character or traits: an impersonal deity.
3.
lacking human emotion or warmth: an impersonal manner.
4.
Grammar.
a.
(of a verb) having only third person singular forms and rarely if ever accompanied by an expressed subject, as Latin pluit “it is raining,” or regularly accompanied by an empty subject word, as English to rain in It is raining.
b.
(of a pronoun or pronominal reference) indefinite, as French on “one.”
Lacking personality; not being a person: an impersonal force.
Showing no emotion or personality: an aloof, impersonal manner.
Having no personal reference or connection: an impersonal remark.
Not responsive to or expressive of human personalities: a large, impersonal corporation.
Of, relating to, or being a verb that expresses the action of an unspecified subject, as in methinks, "it seems to me"; Latin pluit, "it rains"; or, with an expletive subject, it snowed.
Indefinite. Used of pronouns.
Grammar
Of, relating to, or being a verb that expresses the action of an unspecified subject, as in methinks, "it seems to me"; Latin pluit, "it rains"; or, with an expletive subject, it snowed.
1520, a grammatical term, from L.L. impersonalis, from in- "not" + personalis "personal." Sense of "not connected with any person" is from 1630; that of "not endowed with personality" is from 1842.
not showing, or being affected by, personal feelings Example: His manner was formal and impersonal.
Arabic:
غَيْر شَخْصي ، موضوعي
Chinese (Simplified):
非个人的
Chinese (Traditional):
客觀的﹐無個人感情的
Czech:
neosobní
Danish:
upersonlig
Dutch:
onpersoonlijk
Estonian:
isikupäratu
Finnish:
persoonaton
French:
impersonnel
German:
unpersönlich
Greek:
απρόσωπος, τυπικός
Hungarian:
személytelen
Icelandic:
ópersónulegur
Indonesian:
tidak menampakkan perasaan pribadi
Italian:
impersonale
Japanese:
無感情の
Korean:
일반적인
Latvian:
bezkaislīgs; bezpersonisks
Lithuanian:
bešališkas, objektyvus
Norwegian:
upersonlig
Polish:
bezosobowy
Portuguese (Brazil):
impessoal
Portuguese (Portugal):
impessoal
Romanian:
(în mod) impersonal, rece
Russian:
беспристрастный
Slovak:
neosobný
Slovenian:
brezoseben
Spanish:
impersonal
Swedish:
opersonlig
Turkish:
kişiliksiz
impersonal2[imˈpəːsənl]adjective
(of a verb) having a subject which does not refer to a person, thing etc Example: In the sentence `It snowed last night', `snowed' is an example of an impersonal verb.
Im*per"son*al\, a. [L. impersonalis; pref. im- not + personalis personal: cf. F. impersonnel. See Personal.] 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.
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