dispassionate

[ dis-pash-uh-nit ]

/ dɪsˈpæʃ ə nɪt /

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adjective

free from or unaffected by passion; devoid of personal feeling or bias; impartial; calm: a dispassionate critic.

OTHER WORDS FOR dispassionate

cool, unemotional, uninvolved; fair, just.

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Origin of dispassionate

First recorded in 1585–95; dis-¹ + passionate

OTHER WORDS FROM dispassionate

dis·pas·sion·ate·ly, adverbdis·pas·sion·ate·ness, nounun·dis·pas·sion·ate, adjectiveun·dis·pas·sion·ate·ly, adverb

Words nearby dispassionate

disparate, disparity, disparlure, dispart, dispassion, dispassionate, dispatch, dispatch boat, dispatch box, dispatch case, dispatcher

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How to use dispassionate in a sentence

In making such an argument, Murray asks the reader to take the impassioned plea for a united America in his closing chapter with his professed dispassionate analysis of group difference.
A well-worn argument about race, intelligence and violence|Theodore Johnson|June 25, 2021|Washington Post
David Relman, a microbiologist at Stanford University, says a lab leak was never the subject of a “fair and dispassionate discussion of the facts as we know them.”
Did the coronavirus leak from a lab? These scientists say we shouldn’t rule it out.|Niall Firth|March 18, 2021|MIT Technology Review
I judge the entries blindly with dispassionate sincerity,Rewarding those exhibiting the maximum hilarity.
Style Invitational Week 1424: We Bee back — a neologism contest|Pat Myers|February 18, 2021|Washington Post
Like most Wikipedia articles, it will continue to change, a fluid draft of history meant to stick as closely to dispassionate facts as possible while regularly swatting off attempts to insert opinions and disinformation.
On its 20th birthday, Wikipedia might be safest place online|Heather Kelly|January 15, 2021|Washington Post

The survivors could narrate the most horrific experiences in a very dispassionate manner.
The Potential Oscar Film That’s Too Hot for the Nigerian Government|Daniel Malloy|December 16, 2020|Ozy
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|DAILY BEAST
Now would seem like a strange time for a dispassionate, de-politicized immigration solution to emerge from the House.
The House GOP’s Big Immigration Fail|James Poulos|June 5, 2014|DAILY BEAST
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|DAILY BEAST
All written in a similar mode: authoritative, declamatory, distant, dispassionate, impersonal, and (allegedly) neutral.
The Dark Side of Wordless Internet Slang|James Poulos|January 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Precisely because of their obsession with numbers and data, they are dispassionate about social issues.
The Insurance Industry’s Liberal Turn|Daniel Gross|July 10, 2013|DAILY BEAST
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 Macaulay
Winston shivered a little at the dispassionate brutality of the speech, and then checked the anger that came upon him.
Winston of the Prairie|Harold Bindloss
The 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. Overton
Charnock did not care if he brought up among them or not, and watched with a curious dispassionate interest.
The Girl From Keller's|Harold Bindloss
I 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

dispassionate

/ (dɪsˈpæʃənɪt) /

adjective

devoid of or uninfluenced by emotion or prejudice; objective; impartial

Derived forms of dispassionate

dispassionately, adverbdispassionateness, noun

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