dispassionate

American  

[dis-pash-uh-nit] / dɪsˈpæʃ ə nɪt /

adjective

1. free from or unaffected by passion; devoid of personal feeling or bias; impartial; calm.

   a dispassionate critic.

   Synonyms:

   just, fair, uninvolved, unemotional, cool

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dispassionate British  

/ dɪsˈpæʃənɪt /

adjective

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

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Other Word Forms

• dispassionately adverb
• dispassionateness noun
• undispassionate adjective
• undispassionately adverb

Etymology

Origin of dispassionate

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

Example Sentences

“We delude ourselves, too, if we think that power will accumulate safely and only in the hands of dispassionate ‘people . . . found in agencies.’”

From The Wall Street Journal

Under the direction of Sarah Frankcom, the actors inflect the dialogue with welcome variety, although the overall tone remains firmly dispassionate and emotionally colorless, as befits the dialogue’s cool tone.

From The Wall Street Journal

As dispassionate buyers who paid cash and didn’t quibble over ugly paint or dingy carpet, they beat out regular buyers without having to outbid them.

From The Wall Street Journal

We must all reexamine our beliefs in a critical and dispassionate spirit to determine whether we are apprehending reality or clinging to mental fetishes.

From Salon

In some areas such as human resources, even AI industry professionals argue that human emotion is important—and AI decision-making might be too dispassionate.

From The Wall Street Journal

Related Words

• abstract
• candid
• detached
• disinterested
• sober
• unbiased
• unemotional