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dispassionate
painful

dis·pas·sion·ate

dispassionate

 
 
pronunciation:
dIs pae sh niht
features:
Word Combinations (adjective)
part of speech: adjective
definition: without strong feeling or bias; calm; impartial.
The reporter gave a dispassionate summary of the debate.
synonyms:
calm, cool, detached, disinterested, impartial, imperturbable, objective, unbiased, unflappable
antonyms:
biased, emotional, passionate
similar words:
indifferent, levelheaded, neutral, nonchalant
Word Combinations  About this feature
adverb + (adj.)dispassionate hard, indeed, mostly, relatively
(adj.)dispassionate + noun account, analysis, approach, assessment, attitude, attorney, calculation, consideration, discussion, distance, duty, empiricist, engineer, evidence, examination, gaze, glance, historian, inquiry, intellectual, investigation, judgment, juror, logic, manner, memory, method, mirror, objectivity, observation, observer, outsider, policy, politics, posture, pursuit, realm, reflection, reporter, researcher, scientist, search, style, therapist, tone, trial, truth, view, voice, writer [See all][See only the most frequent]
derivations: dispassionately (adv.), dispassionateness (n.)