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Indifferent   /ɪndˈɪfrənt/  /ɪndˈɪfərənt/   Listen
adjective
Indifferent  adj.  
1.
Not making a difference; having no influence or preponderating weight; involving no preference, concern, or attention; of no account; without significance or importance. "Dangers are to me indifferent." "Everything in the world is indifferent but sin." "His slightest and most indifferent acts... were odious in the clergyman's sight."
2.
Neither particularly good, not very bad; of a middle state or quality; passable; mediocre. "The staterooms are in indifferent order."
3.
Not inclined to one side, party, or choice more than to another; neutral; impartial. "Indifferent in his choice to sleep or die."
4.
Feeling no interest, anxiety, or care, respecting anything; unconcerned; inattentive; apathetic; heedless; as, to be indifferent to the welfare of one's family. "It was a law of Solon, that any person who, in the civil commotions of the republic, remained neuter, or an indifferent spectator of the contending parties, should be condemned to perpetual banishment."
5.
(Law) Free from bias or prejudice; impartial; unbiased; disinterested. "In choice of committees for ripening business for the counsel, it is better to choose indifferent persons than to make an indifferency by putting in those that are strong on both sides."
Indifferent tissue (Anat.), the primitive, embryonic, undifferentiated tissue, before conversion into connective, muscular, nervous, or other definite tissue.



adverb
Indifferent  adv.  To a moderate degree; passably; tolerably. (Obs.) "News indifferent good."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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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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