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

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How to use dispassionate in a sentence

Dispassionately observing from the far corner of the chamber balcony stood still more lobbyists.
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That planning is best done deliberately, dispassionately and holistically.
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But many seem to regard them almost dispassionately, as a way to draw a line under an era.
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And his argument that we are heading to certain fiscal disaster is quite calmly and dispassionately made.
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I have dared to relate this to your Majesty because of my zeal as a loyal vassal, and as one who looks at things dispassionately.
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"Oxford Street," announced the conductor dispassionately, and the trimmed lady shut her book and rose to get out.
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Surveying them dispassionately, one could not help suspecting they belonged to a tribe of cannibals.
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Frankle's face was a graven mask as he searched their faces dispassionately.
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I thought it was the possession of this piece of news which enabled her to tell me that story so calmly and so dispassionately.
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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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