dispassionate

English

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁

Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is-

Proto-Italic *dis-

Latin dis-

Old French des-bor.

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Latin dis-bor.

Middle English dis-

English dis-

English passionate

English dispassionate

From dis- + passionate.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪsˈpæʃənət/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Adjective

dispassionate (comparative more dispassionate, superlative most dispassionate)

1. Not showing, and not affected by, emotion, bias, or prejudice.

   Synonyms: nonpassionate, unpassionate; see also Thesaurus:alexithymic, Thesaurus:impartial

   Antonym: passionate

   • 1923, Ernest Bramah, The Eyes of Max Carrados:

     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.

   • 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:

     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.

Derived terms

• dispassionately
• dispassionateness
• undispassionate

Translations

not showing, and not affected by, emotion, bias, or prejudice

• Bulgarian: безстрастен (bg) (bezstrasten)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 冷靜的 / 冷静的 (lěngjìng de), 不帶感情的 / 不带感情的 (bù dài gǎnqíng de)

• Finnish: kiihkoton, maltillinen (fi)
• French: dépassionné (fr), calme (fr), rationnel (fr), impartial (fr), objectif (fr)
• German: leidenschaftslos
• Italian: spassionato (it)
• Māori: whakamoroki
• Polish: bezstronny (pl), beznamiętny (pl)
• Russian: беспристра́стный (ru) (bespristrástnyj) (impartial, unbiased)
• Swedish: lidelsefri (sv), kallsinnig (sv)
• Ukrainian: безсторо́нній (uk) (bezstorónnij) (impartial, unbiased), безпри́страсний (uk) (bezprýstrasnyj) (impassive, passionless, unimpassioned)

Etymology 2

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁

Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is-

Proto-Italic *dis-

Latin dis-

Old French des-bor.

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Latin dis-bor.

Middle English dis-

English dis-

Proto-Indo-European *peh₁-

Proto-Italic *patosder.?

Proto-Indo-European *pet-der.?

Latin patior

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin passiōbor.

Old English passion

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Latin passiōbor.

Old French passionbor.

Middle English passioun

English passion

English dispassion

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos

Proto-Italic *-ātos

Latin -ātuslbor.

English -ate

English dispassionate

From dispassion + -ate (verb-forming suffix).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪsˈpæʃəneɪt/

Verb

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

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

   Antonym: passionate