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. - 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 - 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 - 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.