Apathetic

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Apathetic \Ap`a*thet"ic\, Apathetical \Ap`a*thet"ic*al\a. [See
     {Apathy}.]
     Void of feeling; not susceptible of deep emotion;
     passionless. a woman who became active rather than apathetic
     as she grew older
     [1913 Webster]


  
     2. showing a lack of interest or concern; indifferent. an
        apathetic audience
  
     Syn: indifferent
          [WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  apathetic
       adj 1: showing little or no emotion or animation; "a woman who
              became active rather than apathetic as she grew older"
       2: marked by a lack of interest; "an apathetic audience"; "the
          universe is neither hostile nor friendly; it is simply
          indifferent" [syn: {indifferent}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  173 Moby Thesaurus words for "apathetic":
     Laodicean, Olympian, abeyant, affording no hope, aloof, anesthetic,
     ataractic, backward, balking, balky, benumbed, blah, blase, bleak,
     bored, callous, careless, casual, cataleptic, catatonic, centrist,
     cheerless, comatose, comfortless, dead, debilitated, desensitized,
     despairing, desperate, despondent, detached, devil-may-care,
     dilatory, disconsolate, disinterested, dismal, dispassionate,
     disregardful, distant, dopey, dormant, droopy, drugged, dry, dull,
     easygoing, enervated, even, exanimate, fifty-fifty, flat, forlorn,
     foul, grim, groggy, grudging, half-and-half, heartless, heavy,
     hebetudinous, heedless, hopeless, impartial, impassible, impassive,
     in a stupor, in abeyance, in despair, in suspense, inactive,
     inanimate, inattentive, incurious, independent, indifferent, inert,
     inexcitable, insensible, insensitive, insouciant, jaded,
     lackadaisical, laggard, languid, languorous, latent, leaden,
     lethargic, lifeless, limp, listless, loath, logy, lumpish,
     matter-of-fact, midway, mindless, moderate, moribund, negligent,
     neuter, neutral, nonaligned, nonchalant, noncommitted, nonpartisan,
     numb, numbed, on the fence, passive, perfunctory, phlegmatic,
     pluckless, pococurante, pooped, reckless, regardless, reluctant,
     renitent, resigned, restive, sated, sedentary, slack, sleeping,
     sleepy, slow, slow to, sluggish, slumbering, smoldering, somnolent,
     soporific, spiritless, spunkless, stagnant, stagnating, standing,
     static, stoic, stolid, stultified, stupefied, supine, suspended,
     tame, third-force, third-world, torpid, turned-off, unanxious,
     unaroused, uncaring, uncommitted, unconcerned, undiscriminating,
     unenthusiastic, unhopeful, uninquiring, uninterested, uninvolved,
     unmindful, unmoved, unsolicitous, untouched, unzealous, vegetable,
     vegetative, wan, weary, withdrawn, without hope, world-weary