1 (usually disapproving) lacking friendly human feelings or atmosphere; making you feel unimportant:
a vast impersonal organization * an impersonal hotel room * Business letters need not be formal and impersonal. * a cold impersonal stare * His touch was as impersonal as that of a doctor.
2 not referring to any particular person:
Let's keep the criticism general and impersonal.
3 (grammar) an impersonal verb or sentence has 'it' or 'there' as the subject
impersonality noun [U]:
the cold impersonality of some modern cities
impersonally adverb
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In this entry, impersonal is tagged as adjective.
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