English-Portuguese translations for impersonal

• impessoal
  O Senhor Comissário deu uma resposta teórica e impessoal. You reply in a theoretical and impersonal way.
  Quando deixarem de ser tratadas como uma força de trabalho impessoal, as mulheres poderão dar um contributo criativo em muitos sectores da economia. No longer being treated as an impersonal workforce, they could then make a creative contribution in many areas of the economy.
  É muito fácil fugir à resposta, mas cumpre­lhe a responsabilidade e deve responder ao que lhe é perguntado e não dar respostas da forma teórica e impessoal como fez. It is very easy to avoid the question, but you are responsible and you must reply to what you are asked and not in a theoretical and impersonal way.

Definition of impersonal

• Not personal; not representing a person; not having personality
• Lacking warmth or emotion; cold
• Not having a subject, or having a third person pronoun without an antecedent
• An impersonal word or construct

Examples

• She sounded impersonal as she gave her report of the Nazi death camps
• The verb “rain” is impersonal in sentences like “It’s raining.”

Related words

• impersonality
• impersonally
• impersonalize
• impersonal subject
• impersonal verb
• impersonal account