dispassionate

[ dis-pash-uh-nit ]

adjective

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

   a dispassionate critic.

   Synonyms: uninvolved, unemotional, just, fair, cool

dispassionate

/ dɪsˈpæʃənɪt /

adjective

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

Derived Forms

• disˈpassionately, adverb
• disˈpassionateness, noun

Other Words From

• 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

Word History and Origins

Origin of dispassionate¹

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

Example Sentences

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.

From 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.”

From MIT Technology Review

I judge the entries blindly with dispassionate sincerity,Rewarding those exhibiting the maximum hilarity.

From 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.

From Washington Post

The survivors could narrate the most horrific experiences in a very dispassionate manner.

From Ozy

Stangneth has been faulted by some reviewers for not being a sufficiently dispassionate historian.

From The Daily Beast

Now would seem like a strange time for a dispassionate, de-politicized immigration solution to emerge from the House.

From The Daily Beast

Whether you can get outside your own skin or sexuality and look at the world with a dispassionate eye.

From The Daily Beast

All written in a similar mode: authoritative, declamatory, distant, dispassionate, impersonal, and (allegedly) neutral.

From The Daily Beast

Precisely because of their obsession with numbers and data, they are dispassionate about social issues.

From The Daily Beast

It must be evident to every intelligent and dispassionate man that these declaimers contradicted themselves.

From Project Gutenberg

Winston shivered a little at the dispassionate brutality of the speech, and then checked the anger that came upon him.

From Project Gutenberg

The form in which his religion was cast might suit some natures, but was too cold and dispassionate for general use.

From Project Gutenberg

Charnock did not care if he brought up among them or not, and watched with a curious dispassionate interest.

From Project Gutenberg

I do not know that I can be entirely dispassionate as I look back over this incident in my life.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

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