See imperturbable in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"sense": "not capable of being, or not easily, perturbed",
"word": "непоколеби́мый"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "nepronicájemyj",
"sense": "not capable of being, or not easily, perturbed",
"word": "непроница́емый"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "nevozmutimyj",
"sense": "not capable of being, or not easily, perturbed",
"word": "невозмутимый"
},
{
"code": "sa",
"lang": "Sanskrit",
"roman": "akṣobhya",
"sense": "not capable of being, or not easily, perturbed",
"word": "अक्षोभ्य"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "not capable of being, or not easily, perturbed",
"word": "imperturbable"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "nezvorúšnyj",
"sense": "not capable of being, or not easily, perturbed",
"word": "незвору́шний"
},
{
"alt": "平坦",
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "not capable of being, or not easily, perturbed",
"word": "bình thản"
}
],
"word": "imperturbable"
}
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