heart-free

adjective

Definition of heart-freenext
as in detached

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  1. detached
  2. unimpressed
  3. cool
Adjective
  • Guests return year on year, generation on generation, making Coral Reef Club the perfect antidote to the detached, impersonal sheen of the modern chain resort.
    — Jonnie Bayfield, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 July 2026
  • Or a pig’s leg lying off to the side, detached and jittering, could resemble Ted’s leg.
    — Will Mackin, New Yorker, 28 June 2026
Definition of detached
Adjective
  • Christopher Nolan discussed the writing process for his upcoming epic The Odyssey during a new interview with BBC News, and shared an amusing anecdote about his son being unimpressed with the filmmaker’s various accolades.
    — Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 9 July 2026
  • Though Odysseus’s famous boar’s tusk helmet from the Iliad is unlikely to make it to the screen any time soon, audiences were especially unimpressed by the helmet worn by Benny Safdie’s Agamemnon.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 6 July 2026
Definition of unimpressed
Adjective
  • Phaedra pleads with Porsha to at least keep it cool at her birthday dinner that evening, but Porsha can’t even promise that.
    — Ile-Ife Okantah, Vulture, 20 July 2026
  • If Spain keep cool, then Argentina run hot; a warm-blooded, emotional, often chaotic side where performances swing wildly within games, never mind from one match to the next.
    — Adam Crafton, New York Times, 20 July 2026
Definition of cool
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