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un·e·mo·tion·al

 (ŭn′ĭ-mō′shə-nəl)
adj.
1. Not easily stirred or moved in feeling.
2. Involving little or no emotion; rational.

un′e·mo′tion·al·ly adv.
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unemotional

(ˌʌnɪˈməʊʃənəl)
adj
lacking in strong feeling
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un•e•mo•tion•al

(ˌʌn ɪˈmoʊ ʃə nl)
adj.
lacking or not showing emotion.
[1875–80]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj.1.unemotional - unsusceptible to or destitute of or showing no emotionunemotional - unsusceptible to or destitute of or showing no emotion
unmoved, unaffected, untouched - emotionally unmoved; "always appeared completely unmoved and imperturbable"
unmoving - not arousing emotions
passionless - not passionate; "passionless observation of human nature"
cool - psychologically cool and unenthusiastic; unfriendly or unresponsive or showing dislike; "relations were cool and polite"; "a cool reception"; "cool to the idea of higher taxes"
emotional - of more than usual emotion; "his behavior was highly emotional"
2.unemotional - cool and formal in mannerunemotional - cool and formal in manner    
undemonstrative - not given to open expression of emotion
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unemotional

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unemotional

adjective
1. Not affected by or showing emotion:
2. With little or no emotion or expression:
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Translations

unemotional

[ˈʌnɪˈməʊʃənl] ADJ (gen) → impasible, insensible; [account] → objetivo
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unemotional

[ˌʌnɪˈməʊʃənəl] adj [person] → impassible; [voice] → qui ne trahit aucune émotion
to feel unemotional about sth → garder de la distance vis-à-vis de qch
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unemotional

adj person, character, approach, voicenüchtern; reaction, description alsounbewegt; (= without passion)leidenschaftslos, kühl (pej); try and stay unemotionalversuchen Sie, nüchtern und sachlich zu bleiben
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unemotional

[ˌʌnɪˈməʊʃənl] adj (person) → freddo/a, impassibile; (account) → distaccato/a
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References in classic literature ?
There is something tropical and exotic about her which forms a singular contrast to her cool and unemotional brother.
People told him he was unemotional; but he knew that he was at the mercy of his emotions: an accidental kindness touched him so much that sometimes he did not venture to speak in order not to betray the unsteadiness of his voice.
The travel-stained adventurers gazed after her in astonishment, and even the unemotional Indians, journeying in with their pelties, relaxed their accustomed stoicism as they marvelled at the beauty of the pale-faced maiden.
D'Urberville mechanically lit a cigar, and the journey was continued with broken unemotional conversation on the commonplace objects by the wayside.
Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner.
She asked for more information about Miss Dolly Fussell that was, and was given it in even, unemotional tones.
A shrewd observer might have remarked that the emotional temperature rather rose at so unemotional an interruption.
A something which was not coldness, nor yet indifference, but a sort of peculiar self-possession gave her the appearance of a very trustworthy, very capable and excellent governess; as if Fyne were a widower and the children not her own but only entrusted to her calm, efficient, unemotional care.
This is why, perhaps, my face was set hard and my voice curt and unemotional while I made my declaration that I could do nothing more for the sick in the way of drugs.
He thought with a sort of dry, unemotional melancholy; three years of good work gone, the course of forty more perhaps jeopardized--turned from hope to terror, because events started by human folly link themselves into a sequence which no sagacity can foresee and no courage can break through.
For the rest {sic} the man's life moved in a narrow and conventional circle, for his habits were quiet and his nature unemotional. Yet it was upon this easy-going young aristocrat that death came, in most strange and unexpected form, between the hours of ten and eleven-twenty on the night of March 30, 1894.
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.