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What is the difference between the words "passive" and "impassive"?

Asked by flo (13313points) January 9th, 2013

if the prefixes “im” and “un” and “in” are usually supposed to make an adjective the opposite, then why is the word “impassive” (for example) used to describe a passive person.

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