dispassionate

Adjective

dispassionate (comparative more dispassionate, superlative most dispassionate)

1. Not showing, and not affected by, emotion, bias, or prejudice.
   • I am an indifferent player. If the tactics of the game have been reduced to machinery and the combinations are controlled by a dispassionate automaton, the one-tenth would constitute a winning factor.1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC
   • 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.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

   Synonyms:

   nonpassionate, unpassionate, alexithymic, apathistical, clinical, dull, phlegmatic, cold-blooded, cold-hearted, dead inside

   Antonyms:

   passionate

Verb

UK/dɪsˈpæʃəneɪt/

dispassionate (third-person singular simple present dispassionates, present participle dispassionating, simple past and past participle dispassionated)

1. (obsolete, rare) To free from passion.

   Antonyms:

   passionate