Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not impressible; not sensitive; apathetic.
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- adjective Not
impressible ; notsensitive ;apathetic .
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Examples
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For what good, say these unimpressible and incredulous men, for what good was this miracle?
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Sweden; Leibnitz; the august house of Brunswick; Tillotson; the emperor of China; the Parliament of England; the Council of the great Mogul; in short, all you who do not believe one word which I have taught in my courses on divinity, I declare to you, that I regard you all as pagans and publicans, as, in order to engrave it on your unimpressible brains, I have often told you before.
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No, he needed to do something dramatic-something that would impress a woman as sleek and cool and, well, unimpressible as Tammy Hudson surely was.
More Twisted Stories Vol II Deaver, Jeffery 2006
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Another objectionable circumstance is, that the pokey unknowns support each other in being unimpressible.
Our Mutual Friend 2004
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The low, bad, unimpressible face is coming up from the depths of the river, or what other depths, to the surface again.
Our Mutual Friend 2004
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No, he needed to do something dramatic -- something that would impress a woman as sleek and cool and, well, unimpressible as Tammy Hudson surely was.
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No, he needed to do something dramatic -- something that would impress a woman as sleek and cool and, well, unimpressible as Tammy Hudson surely was.
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His natural attitude was not the meditative, nor his natural mood the sentimental; impressionable he was as dimpling water, but, almost as water, unimpressible: the breeze, the sun, moved him — metal could not grave, nor fire brand.
Villette 2003
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Amos could hardly realise that this moral heroine was the sister whom he had once known so weak, so self-willed, so unimpressible for anything that was good and holy.
Amos Huntingdon T.P. Wilson
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It was the blacksmith whom I found hard and unimpressible as his own anvil, dark as his forge, and as unpitying as its flames.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843 Various
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