Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - impersonal

1. If you describe a place, organization, or activity as impersonal, you mean that it is not very friendly and makes you feel unimportant because it involves or is used by a large number of people. Before then many children were cared for in large impersonal orphanages... ADJ c darkgreen]disapproval 2. If you describe someone’s behaviour as impersonal, you mean that they do not show any emotion about the person they are dealing with. We must be as impersonal as a surgeon with his knife... ADJ • impersonally The doctor treated Ted gently but impersonally. ADV 3. An impersonal room or statistic does not give any information about the character of the person to whom it belongs or relates. The rest of the room was neat and impersonal... ADJ