dispassionate
English
Etymology 1
From dis- + passionate.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /dɪsˈpæʃənət/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Adjective
dispassionate (comparative more dispassionate, superlative most dispassionate)
- Not showing, and not affected by, emotion, bias, or prejudice.
- Synonyms: nonpassionate, unpassionate; see also Thesaurus:alexithymic, Thesaurus:impartial
- Antonym: passionate
- 2004 November 26, Jesse Armstrong, Sam Bain, “Local Zero” (8:31 from the start), in Peep Show, season 2, episode 3, spoken by Mark Corrigan (David Mitchell), Channel 4:
- Yes, I suppose the news should just be a dispassionate list of all the events that have occurred the world over during the day. That would be good. Except, of course, it would take forever.
Derived terms
Translations
not showing, and not affected by, emotion, bias, or prejudice
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Etymology 2
From dispassion + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /dɪsˈpæʃəneɪt/
Verb
dispassionate (third-person singular simple present dispassionates, present participle dispassionating, simple past and past participle dispassionated)
- (obsolete, rare) To free from passion.
- Antonym: passionate