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DISPASSIONATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dispassionate mean? 

DISPASSIONATE (adjective)
  The adjective DISPASSIONATE has 1 sense:

1. unaffected by strong emotion or prejudiceplay

  Familiarity information: DISPASSIONATE used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


DISPASSIONATE (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Unaffected by strong emotion or prejudice

Synonyms:

cold-eyed; dispassionate

Context example:

a journalist should be a dispassionate reporter of fact

Similar:

impartial (showing lack of favoritism)

Derivation:

dispassion; dispassionateness (objectivity and detachment)


 Context examples 


Jane, I am not a gentle-tempered man—you forget that: I am not long- enduring; I am not cool and dispassionate.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

“I think, Clara,” said Mr. Murdstone, in a low grave voice, “that there may be better and more dispassionate judges of such a question than you.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

And I have felt—we both have felt, I may say; my sister being fully in my confidence—that it is right you should receive this grave and dispassionate assurance from our lips.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)



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