cold-eyed
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7.6
- adjective
- /koʊld aɪd/
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- It was a plastic Yuppie healthy thing the Bagel Shop was, full of long-ago stoners and business types, which was not such an odd mix, though a mix that looked cold-eyed at the likes of them.
- cold-eyed realist
- cold-eyed man
Examples
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In negotiations, she maintained a cold-eyed demeanor, unaffected by emotional appeals.
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The buyer was a cold-eyed woman in designer expedition gear.
Fiction book (2000) -
Kelley was waiting for him with two cold-eyed, professionally armed men who clearly had no compunction about shooting a bunch of frustrated people.
Fiction book (2001) -
It required, Clara realized, a disciplined denial of personal vanity, a cold-eyed, clear-eyed assessment of features and posture.
Fiction book (1993) -
And, judging by the words he used to describe Hobsbawm's work—forceful, strong, frank, cold-eyed—he saw him as a principled friend who could not be frightened or bought.
Academic text (2014) -
The detective approached the case with a cold-eyed objectivity, focusing solely on the facts.
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His cold-eyed assessment of the situation helped the team make rational decisions without bias.
Synonyms
883
4.4
Unfriendly and distant in feeling or action
32
6.5
Not showing emotion or personal involvement
22
3.3
Cold and unfriendly in tone or manner
14
6.7
Not letting strong feelings affect your judgment
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4.4
Having a face or way of acting that shows no feeling
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7.1
Not showing any feeling on the face or in the voice
11
4.4
Not showing strong feelings
11
5.5
Not showing feelings on the face or in the voice
7
5.6
Able to think and judge things in a calm, practical way
7
6.5
Showing no feeling or sympathy
1
9.3
A person who shows no emotion in the face or voice
Antonyms
How Objective
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word cold-eyed joins cold ('not warm or emotional') and eyed ('looking with the eyes'), like in cold-hearted where cold means no feeling. So a cold-eyed person looks at facts without emotion and is not influenced by feeling.