dispassionate
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6.7
- adjective
- /dɪsˈpæʃənɪt/
- Formal
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imparcial
- I offer this essay as a dispassionate (well, the closest that I can manage to dispassionate) response.
- a dispassionate observer
- dispassionate analysis
- dispassionate investigation
It needs to become dispassionate cold hard math.
- It needs to become dispassionate cold hard math.
- Being very dispassionate, just looking at things very objectively.
- There is a like a, a tone to finance YouTube that's a bit dispassionate.
- But you know, it's so hard to work to the dwindling number of people who want an A dispassionate objective view.
- Even you're dispassionate description would be seen as a as a as one that's already picked aside.
- But the judge is dispassionate and trained in the law and isn't sleeping with anybody's wife except his own.
Examples
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The panel conducted a dispassionate review of the findings to ensure fairness.
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I would like to explain it in a dispassionate fashion.
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Yes, I suppose the news should be a dispassionate list of all the events that have occurred during the day
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So I intend to be as dispassionate as I can in this comparison of the two men.
Academic text (2002) -
The decisions, purely business, are made by computer to keep them as rational and dispassionate as possible.
Fiction book (1995) -
The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea is supposed to offer dispassionate adjudication of disputes.
Academic text (2005) -
I've been asked as a dispassionate scientist to advise on the simple question of whether death by electricity is a violation of the Eighth Amendment and is cruel and unusual.
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As a judge, she must remain dispassionate to deliver an impartial verdict.
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A dispassionate analysis of the situation revealed the need for change.
Synonyms
218
3.6
Not supporting either side in a conflict
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4.2
Not supporting one side and treating people fairly
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4.4
Does not show personal feelings or opinions and treats people fairly
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6.5
Not showing emotion or personal involvement
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5.9
Not influenced by personal feelings and fair to everyone
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5.9
Showing careful and fair thinking when making a decision
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4.4
Being careful to judge people and ideas honestly without taking sides
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4.4
Not showing strong feelings
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3.7
Not supporting one person or group in a situation
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6.2
Not showing strong feelings and focusing on the facts
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6.0
Fair and not influenced by personal feelings or opinions when judging people and ideas
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7.6
Not showing strong feeling when judging something
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7.4
Calm and not showing strong feelings
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7.0
Being calm and accepting when bad things happen
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4.5
Not favoring one person or group and treating all sides fairly
1
6.0
Not having strong opinions or showing them
Does not let personal feelings affect a decision
Not showing unfair dislike or bias toward other people
Antonyms
How Passionate
Surface Forms
Morphology
dispassionate = passionate (semi-transparent) = dis + passion + ate
The relation to 'passionate' is clear as 'not passionate' or 'free from strong emotion', but the fuller sense 'therefore impartial or fair' is a mild semantic extension.
Etymology
Dispassionate starts with dis- meaning 'not' and the root passion meaning 'strong feeling'. So a dispassionate person is 'not moved by strong feelings' and can be calm and fair.