Word Meanings - DISPASSIONATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Free from passion; not warped, prejudiced, swerved, or carried away by passion or feeling; judicial; calm; composed. Wise and dispassionate men. Clarendon. 2. Not dictated by passion; not proceeding from temper or bias; impartial;

Additional info about word: DISPASSIONATE

1. Free from passion; not warped, prejudiced, swerved, or carried away by passion or feeling; judicial; calm; composed. Wise and dispassionate men. Clarendon. 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DISPASSIONATE)

• Demure
• Sedate
• staid
• grave
• modest
• downcast
• sober
• dispassionate
• prudish
• discreet
• Moderate
• Limited
• temperate
• calm
• abstinent
• sparing
• steady
• ordinary
• Sober
• Temperate
• unintoxicated
• cool
• reasonable
• culm
• self-possessed
• sound
• unexcited
• serious
• sedate
• abstemious
• moderate

Related words: (words related to DISPASSIONATE)

• SPAR-HUNG
  Hung with spar, as a cave.
• DEMURE
  good manners); de of + murs, mours, meurs, mors, F. m, fr. L. mores manners, morals ; or more prob. fr. OF. meür, F. mûr mature, ripe in a phrase preceded by de, as de 1. Of sober or serious mien; composed and decorous in bearing; of modest
• SERIOUS
  1. Grave in manner or disposition; earnest; thoughtful; solemn; not light, gay, or volatile. He is always serious, yet there is about his manner a graceful ease. Macaulay. 2. Really intending what is said; being in earnest; not jesting
• GRAVES
  The sediment of melted tallow. Same as Greaves.
• GRAVEDIGGER
  See T (more info) 1. A digger of graves.
• SPARPOIL
  To scatter; to spread; to disperse.
• SPARPIECE
  The collar beam of a roof; the spanpiece. Gwilt.
• SEDATE
  Undisturbed by passion or caprice; calm; tranquil; serene; not passionate or giddy; composed; staid; as, a sedate soul, mind, or temper. Disputation carries away the mind from that calm and sedate temper which is so necessary to contemplate truth.
• LIMITARIAN
  Tending to limit.
• LIMITIVE
  Involving a limit; as, a limitive law, one designed to limit existing powers.
• LIMITABLE
  Capable of being limited.
• GRAVEL
  A deposit of small calculous concretions in the kidneys and the urinary or gall bladder; also, the disease of which they are a symptom. Gravel powder, a coarse gunpowder; pebble powder. (more info) strand; of Celtic origin; cf. Armor.
• SOUNDER
  One who, or that which; sounds; specifically, an instrument used in telegraphy in place of a register, the communications being read by sound.
• SPARSELY
  In a scattered or sparse manner.
• MODESTLY
  In a modest manner.
• SPARKER
  A spark arrester.
• SPARROWWORT
  An evergreen shrub of the genus Erica .
• SOUNDLESS
  Not capable of being sounded or fathomed; unfathomable. Shak.
• SPARKLER
  One who scatters; esp., one who scatters money; an improvident person.
• SPARKLING
  Emitting sparks; glittering; flashing; brilliant; lively; as, sparkling wine; sparkling eyes. -- Spar"kling*ly, adv. -- Spar"kling*ness, n. Syn. -- Brilliant; shining. See Shining.
• DESPARPLE
  To scatter; to disparkle. Mandeville.
• HIGH-SOUNDING
  Pompous; noisy; ostentatious; as, high-sounding words or titles.
• RESOUND
  resonare; pref. re- re- + sonare to sound, sonus sound. See Sound to 1. To sound loudly; as, his voice resounded far. 2. To be filled with sound; to ring; as, the woods resound with song. 3. To be echoed; to be sent back, as sound. "Common fame
• DISTEMPERATE
  1. Immoderate. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. Diseased; disordered. Wodroephe.
• FLUOR SPAR
  See FLUORITE
• UNLIMITED
  1. Not limited; having no bounds; boundless; as, an unlimited expanse of ocean. 2. Undefined; indefinite; not bounded by proper exceptions; as, unlimited terms. "Nothing doth more prevail than unlimited generalities." Hooker. 3. Unconfined; not
• TRANSPARENT
  transparere to be transparent; L. trans across, through + parere to 1. Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent
• OUTSPARKLE
  To exceed in sparkling.
• DISPARK
  1. To throw ; to treat as a common. The Gentiles were made to be God's people when the Jews' inclosure was disparked. Jer. Taylor. 2. To set at large; to release from inclosure. Till his free muse threw down the pale, And did at once dispark
• WILDGRAVE
  A waldgrave, or head forest keeper. See Waldgrave. The wildgrave winds his bugle horn. Sir W. Scott.