Synonyms: unemotional, restrained, reticent
Definition: cool and formal in manner
Similar words: undemonstrative
Definition: not given to open expression of emotion
Synonyms: unemotional
Definition: unsusceptible to or destitute of or showing no emotion
Similar words: chilly
Definition: not characterized by emotion
Usage: a female form in marble--a chilly but ideal medium for depicting abstract virtues-C.W.Cunningham
Similar words: dry
Definition: lacking warmth or emotional involvement
Usage: a dry greeting; a dry reading of the lines; a dry critique
Similar words: stolid, impassive
Definition: having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; not easily aroused or excited
Usage: her impassive remoteness; he remained impassive, showing neither interest in nor concern for our plight- Nordhoff & Hall; a silent stolid creature who took it all as a matter of course-Virginia Woolf; her face showed nothing but stolid indifference
Similar words: philosophic, philosophical
Definition: characterized by the attitude of a philosopher; meeting trouble with level-headed detachment
Usage: philosophical resignation; a philosophic attitude toward life
Similar words: phlegmatic, phlegmatical
Definition: showing little emotion
Usage: a phlegmatic...and certainly undemonstrative man
Definition: seeming unaffected by pleasure or pain; impassive
Usage: stoic courage; stoic patience; a stoical sufferer
Similar words: unblinking
Definition: showing no visible emotion
Usage: stood unblinking and accepted a sentence of a year