Dispassionate

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Dispassionate \Dis*pas"sion*ate\, a.
     1. Free from passion; not warped, prejudiced, swerved, or
        carried away by passion or feeling; judicial; calm;
        composed.
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              Wise and dispassionate men.           --Clarendon.
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     2. Not dictated by passion; not proceeding from temper or
        bias; impartial; as, dispassionate proceedings; a
        dispassionate view.
  
     Syn: Calm; cool; composed serene; unimpassioned; temperate;
          moderate; impartial; unruffled. --
          {Dis*pas"sion*ate*ly}, adv. -- {Dis*pas"sion*ate*ness},
          n.
          [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  dispassionate
       adj : unaffected by strong emotion or prejudice; "a journalist
             should be a dispassionate reporter of fact" [syn: {cold-eyed}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  139 Moby Thesaurus words for "dispassionate":
     Olympian, aboveboard, abstract, affectless, aloof, anesthetized,
     apathetic, arctic, ataractic, autistic, blase, blunt, bovine, calm,
     candid, careless, casual, catatonic, chill, chilly, cold,
     cold as charity, cold-blooded, coldhearted, colorless, composed,
     cool, detached, devil-may-care, disinterested, disregardful,
     drugged, dull, easygoing, emotionally dead, emotionless, equable,
     equal, equitable, even, even-tempered, evenhanded, fair, frank,
     frigid, frosted, frosty, frozen, heartless, heedless, icy,
     immovable, impartial, impassible, impassive, impersonal,
     imperturbable, inattentive, incurious, indifferent, inexcitable,
     inirritable, insouciant, insusceptible, just, lackadaisical,
     level-headed, levelheaded, listless, lofty, mindless, negligent,
     neutral, nonchalant, nonemotional, objective, obtuse, open,
     open-minded, out of touch, passionless, patient, peaceful,
     perfunctory, placid, pococurante, poker-faced, reckless,
     regardless, reposeful, self-absorbed, self-controlled,
     self-possessed, selfless, serene, sober, soulless, spiritless,
     steady, stoic, stolid, straightforward, tranquil, turned-off,
     unaffectionate, unanxious, unbiased, uncolored, unconcerned,
     undazzled, undiscriminating, undisturbable, unemotional,
     unexcitable, unexcited, unfeeling, unflappable, unimpassioned,
     unimpressionable, uninfluenced, uninterested, unirritable,
     unjaundiced, unloving, unmindful, unmoved, unnervous, unpassionate,
     unprejudiced, unprepossessed, unresponding, unresponsive,
     unruffled, unselfish, unsolicitous, unsusceptible, unswayed,
     unsympathetic, untouchable