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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

... they took excursions in fishing-boats and little sail-boats. Andree entered into these with zest: talked to the sailors, to Jacques, caressed children, and was not indifferent to the notice she attracted in the village; but was obviously distrait. Gaston was patient—and unhappy. So, this was the merchandise for which he had bartered all! But he had a will, he was determined; he had sowed, he would reap his harvest ...

— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker

... year after year against his evil star, wasting his ingenuity upon devices and makeshifts, his high intelligence starving for want of the simple appliances of education that are now offered gratis to the poorest and most indifferent. He did a man's work from the time he left school; his strength and stature were already far beyond those of ordinary men. He wrought his appointed tasks ungrudgingly, though without enthusiasm; but when his employer's day was over, ...

— Abraham Lincoln: A History V1 • John G. Nicolay and John Hay

... was the first to feel a change, the first to become aware of an aroma of mystery. He had been indifferent indeed, though he had obeyed Helen and had tried not only to be very courteous but to be very nice as well. Now, finding Althea's grave eyes upon him when he sometimes yielded to Lady Pickering's allurements, finding them turned away with that look of austere mildness, he ...

— Franklin Kane • Anne Douglas Sedgwick

... commencing to realize that it takes a high order of ability and education to bring out the fullest possibilities of the soil; that it requires fine-grained sympathetic talent. We are now finding that agriculture is as great a science as astronomy, and that ignorant men have been getting an indifferent living from their farms simply because they did not know how to mix ...

— Pushing to the Front • Orison Swett Marden

... us from the bridges as we went below, with a true conservative feeling. But even more conservative were the fishermen, intent upon their floats, who let us go by without one glance. They perched upon sterlings and buttresses and along the slope of the embankment, gently occupied. They were indifferent, like pieces of dead nature. They did not move any more than if they had been fishing in an old Dutch print. The leaves fluttered, the water lapped, but they continued in one stay like so many churches established by law. You might have trepanned every ...

— An Inland Voyage • Robert Louis Stevenson

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