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unemotional
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unemotional
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a cold, unemotional voice
▪ Pat's father was a distant, unemotional man who couldn't really talk to his children.
▪ Police were shocked at the unemotional way the murderer described the killings.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He was observing as a favor, he had nothing at stake: he could be unemotional.
▪ He was our numbers guy, low-key, unemotional.
▪ I try to be unemotional, without much success.
▪ Mostly she lay silent, noncommittal and unemotional, until one day she broke into uncontrollable weeping.
▪ She liked them, read a lot, and in unemotional situations could use them well.
▪ The Holmes-Watson relationship between an unemotional alien and a warm, cheerful, humorous human would evolve.
▪ Thrifty, hardworking, unemotional, they tipped their hats to no one.
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unemotional

1819, from un- (1) "not" + emotional (adj.). Related: Unemotionally.

Wiktionary
unemotional

a. 1 show little or no feeling. 2 Reasoned and objective, involving reason or intellect rather than feelings.

WordNet
unemotional

  1. adj. unsusceptible to or destitute of or showing no emotion [ant: emotional]

  2. cool and formal in manner [syn: reserved, restrained, reticent]

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Usage examples of "unemotional".

The being was modeled along unemotional Invariant lines, perhaps to render it immune from Hortator pressure.

Ned Sanderman was one of the new breed of environmentalists: logical, unemotional, equipped with the latest technology, and with an eye for the bottom line.

Edwards carried on his business of whoremaster in an orderly and unemotional way.

The unemotional voice of the officer of the watch monotoned through steel corridors, showing no more excitement than he would have used to announce an off-watch solido show.

The new seers placed the highest value on deep, unemotional realizations.

This third and final time she recited her entire story to the panel of three Guild Arbitrators, who all remained as impassive and unemotional as statues.

Also, if you are expected to be a strong, unemotional, independent, competitive, and aggressive "tiger" at work, it is hard to come home and be a "pussy cat," being an interdependent equal, washing the dishes, bathing the kids, sharing your self-doubts and remorse about conflicts at work, and being soft and caringly intimate with others (Fasteau, 1974).

Be especially careful if you have any of these personality traits: (a) compulsiveness --perfectionistic, unemotional, over-controlled--because they come unglued when they backslide, (b) dependency--indecisive, clinging--because they go back to drugs when others abandon them, (c) passive-aggressiveness --resistive, procrastinating, blaming--because they drive others away and then can't handle their own anger, (d) self-centeredness --egotistical, pushy--because they don't admit their problems, and (e) rebelliousness --impulsive, antisocial--because they resent anyone offering help.

By that time, apparently summoned by Calhoun, there was in the starter’s office a big, shambling man named Inspector Donnelly, who had a flat voice, a firm mouth, a round head and small, oddly unemotional black eyes.

In harsh, unemotional tones, he read out lists of towns and cities sacked.

Farther aft, a man at the surface fathometer was reading out ice-thickness figures in a quiet, unemotional voice.

They much prefer logic - the grounded, explainable, unemotional thought process that ends in a supportable conclusion.