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# impassive

«impassive» in Mova's school dictionary: **showing no feeling at all, with a calm face that does not…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective

### meaning for a pupil

Impassive means showing no feeling at all, with a calm face that does not change. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/impassive/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in the tales, a brave person keeps an impassive face even when facing death

### examples

- Her face was impassive. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/impassive/#x1)
- The guard stood impassive at the gate. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/impassive/#x2)
- He stayed impassive while the crowd shouted. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/impassive/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «impassive» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/impassive/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.