unflappable
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Etymology edit
From un- + flap (“to upset, stir”) + -able.
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Adjective edit
unflappable (comparative more unflappable, superlative most unflappable)
- Remaining composed and level-headed at all times; impossible to fluster; not becoming frustrated or irritated easily. [from 1954]
- Synonyms: collected, cool, even-keeled, imperturbable
- Antonym: flappable
- 1959, The Economist, volume 190:
- The whole thing looked remarkably like an implacable force meeting an unflappable object.
- 1978, James D. Margach, The abuse of power: the war between Downing Street and the media from Lloyd George to Callaghan:
- It was for this reason that when Lord Hailsham first described Harold Macmillan as "unflappable'", it became an instant catchword, distancing the incoming Prime Minister from his predecessor
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remaining composed and level-headed at all times
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