English-Spanish translations for impersonal

• impersonal
  Usted contesta de un modo teórico e impersonal. You reply in a theoretical and impersonal way.
  Si se las dejase de tratar como mano de obra impersonal, podrían realizar una contribución creativa en muchos ámbitos de la economía. No longer being treated as an impersonal workforce, they could then make a creative contribution in many areas of the economy.
  Había esperado que fuese una consecuencia del impersonal proceso de traducción, pero por lo que he escuchado, parece que no hay oportunidades ni esperanzas; somos islotes. I had hoped it was a by-product of the impersonal translation process but from what I have heard, it seems that there are no openings, that there are no hopes, that there is a gulf.

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