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Indifferent   /ɪndˈɪfrənt/  /ɪndˈɪfərənt/   Listen
Indifferent

adjective
1.
Marked by a lack of interest.  Synonym: apathetic.  "The universe is neither hostile nor friendly; it is simply indifferent"
2.
Showing no care or concern in attitude or action.  "Indifferent to her plea"
3.
(usually followed by 'to') unwilling or refusing to pay heed.  Synonym: deaf.
4.
(often followed by 'to') lacking importance; not mattering one way or the other.  Synonym: immaterial.  "What others think is altogether indifferent to him"
5.
Fairly poor to not very good.  "Has indifferent qualifications for the job"
6.
Having only a limited ability to react chemically; chemically inactive.  Synonyms: inert, neutral.  "An indifferent chemical in a reaction"
7.
Marked by no especial liking or dislike or preference for one thing over another.  "Was indifferent to their acceptance or rejection of her invitation"
8.
Characterized by a lack of partiality.  Synonyms: unbiased, unbiassed.  "An unbiasgoted account of her family problems"
9.
Being neither good nor bad.  Synonym: so-so.  "A gifted painter but an indifferent actor" , "Her work at the office is passable" , "A so-so golfer" , "Feeling only so-so" , "Prepared a tolerable dinner" , "A tolerable working knowledge of French"
10.
Neither too great nor too little.





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"Indifferent" Quotes from Famous Books



... great friend of his, had urged him to practise in arms, which so increased his strength that he was, to his father's delight, able to abandon the idea. He said that all he knew of arms he had acquired from Edgar, and that, while he was still but an indifferent swordsman, his friend was wonderfully skilled with his weapon, and fully a match for ...
— A March on London • G. A. Henty
... was finished. The priests retired first, then the pious followed; the indifferent and curious remained till the last. Among this number were several women. Buvat asked if there was none among them who knew a good sick-nurse. One of them presented herself directly, declared, in the midst of a chorus of her companions, that she had all the ...
— The Conspirators - The Chevalier d'Harmental • Alexandre Dumas (Pere)
... and came into the wood to meet Elmer Cowley, he was neither surprised nor especially interested in the sudden appearance of the young man. His feet also were cold and he sat on the log by the fire, grateful for the warmth and apparently indifferent to ...
— Winesburg, Ohio • Sherwood Anderson
... could be totally indifferent to the delicacy, even although dead and fairly started on her heavenward journeying, was a bewildering fact his dull brain could scarcely grasp. He got up from the table, and taking the unshaded lamp, walked heavily upstairs to ...
— A Sheaf of Corn • Mary E. Mann
... neutral inflections of his voice struck upon Sara's keyed-up consciousness as an indifferent finger may twang the stretched strings of a violin, producing a shuddering violation ...
— The Hermit of Far End • Margaret Pedler


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