1.
[syn: dispassionate, cold-eyed]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Dispassionate \Dis*pas"sion*ate\, a.
1. Free from passion; not warped, prejudiced, swerved, or
carried away by passion or feeling; judicial; calm;
composed.
[1913 Webster]
Wise and dispassionate men. --Clarendon.
[1913 Webster]
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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
dispassionate
adj 1: unaffected by strong emotion or prejudice; "a journalist
should be a dispassionate reporter of fact" [syn:
dispassionate, cold-eyed]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
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