Dispassionate meaning

dĭs-păshə-nĭt
Not influenced by strong feelings or emotions; impartial.

A dispassionate reporter.

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The definition of dispassionate is someone who is calm, not influenced by emotions or without bias.

An example of someone dispassionate is a good judge.

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Free from passion, emotion, or bias; calm; impartial.
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Not showing, and not affected by emotion, bias, or prejudice.
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Dispassionate Sentence Examples

  • It need not affect the opinion of dispassionate students.

  • Henry Clay, contrasting him with Jefferson, said that Jefferson had more genius, Madison more judgment and common sense; that Jefferson was a visionary and a theorist; Madison cool, dispassionate, practical, and safe.'

  • Those of Bishop Watson and Lord Hailes were the best, but simply because they contented themselves with a dispassionate exposition of the general argument in favour of Christianity.

  • While individual moments are unbearably poignant, others seem oddly dispassionate.

  • The " Scottish prejudice " which Burns tells us was " poured " into his veins from the Wallace is not obvious to the dispassionate reader of the Brus.

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