Definition of "impersonal" in English

adjective

1. Not personal; not representing a person; not having personality.

2. Lacking warmth or emotion; cold.

   • She sounded impersonal as she gave her report of the Nazi death camps.

3. (grammar, of a verb or other word) Not having a subject, or having a third person pronoun without an antecedent.

   • The verb “rain” is impersonal in sentences like “It’s raining.”

noun

1. (grammar) An impersonal word or construct.