English-Swedish translations for impersonal

• opersonlig
  När de inte längre behandlas som opersonlig arbetskraft skulle de kunna bidra kreativt på många ekonomiska områden.No longer being treated as an impersonal workforce, they could then make a creative contribution in many areas of the economy.
  Det handlar inte om att personifiera saker, naturligtvis. Det är inte vägen framåt, men kanske vi har gått alltför långt med att ge olika personers ansvar en opersonlig karaktär.It is not a matter of personalising things, of course, that is not the way forward, but perhaps we have gone too far with the impersonal nature of the responsibilities of different people.
  Intervjun blev ganska opersonlig.

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