| 单词 | dispassionate |
| 释义 | dispassionate (once / 3120 pages) adj Dispassionate describes someone who is not getting carried away by—or maybe not even having—feelings. It's something you'd want to see in a surgeon, who keeps cool under pressure, but not in a romantic partner. Dispassionate is the opposite of passionate, and while passions are said to run "hot," dispassionate people are often described as "cold." A city marshal whose job is it to evict people behind on their rents must conduct their job with dispassionate fairness, but still, no one wants to be their friend. WORD FAMILYdispassionate: dispassionately, dispassionateness+/passionate: dispassionate, passionately, passionateness USAGE EXAMPLESWilson was hoping for that too, but was also there for more dispassionate reasons. The Guardian(Dec 29, 2016) Information concerning a changing climate, especially projections into the long-range future, must be based on dispassionate analysis of hard data. Washington Post(Dec 20, 2016) “Partisans” on “each side” were just too partisan — unlike Matthew Dowd, dispassionate arbiter of truth. Salon(Dec 16, 2016) adj unaffected by strong emotion or prejudice a journalist should be a dispassionate reporter of fact Syn cold-eyed impartial showing lack of favoritism |
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