dispassionate
free from or unaffected by passion; devoid of personal feeling or bias; impartial; calm: a dispassionate critic.
Origin of dispassionate
1Other words for dispassionate
Other words from dispassionate
- dis·pas·sion·ate·ly, adverb
- dis·pas·sion·ate·ness, noun
- un·dis·pas·sion·ate, adjective
- un·dis·pas·sion·ate·ly, adverb
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How to use dispassionate in a sentence
Stangneth has been faulted by some reviewers for not being a sufficiently dispassionate historian.
Nothing Was Banal About Eichmann’s Evil, Says a Scathing New Biography | Michael Signer | October 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTNow would seem like a strange time for a dispassionate, de-politicized immigration solution to emerge from the House.
Whether you can get outside your own skin or sexuality and look at the world with a dispassionate eye.
Bring ‘Another Country’ to Broadway: Why a Hit British Classic Needs Its New York Moment | Tom Teodorczuk | June 2, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAll written in a similar mode: authoritative, declamatory, distant, dispassionate, impersonal, and (allegedly) neutral.
Precisely because of their obsession with numbers and data, they are dispassionate about social issues.
It must be evident to every intelligent and dispassionate man that these declaimers contradicted themselves.
The History of England from the Accession of James II. | Thomas Babington MacaulayWinston shivered a little at the dispassionate brutality of the speech, and then checked the anger that came upon him.
Winston of the Prairie | Harold BindlossThe form in which his religion was cast might suit some natures, but was too cold and dispassionate for general use.
The English Church in the Eighteenth Century | Charles J. Abbey and John H. OvertonCharnock did not care if he brought up among them or not, and watched with a curious dispassionate interest.
The Girl From Keller's | Harold BindlossI do not know that I can be entirely dispassionate as I look back over this incident in my life.
The Wasted Generation | Owen Johnson
British Dictionary definitions for dispassionate
/ (dɪsˈpæʃənɪt) /
devoid of or uninfluenced by emotion or prejudice; objective; impartial
Derived forms of dispassionate
- dispassionately, adverb
- dispassionateness, noun
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