Disinterested

3 definitions found

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

  Disinterested \Dis*in"ter*est*ed\, a. [Cf. {Disinteressed}.]
     Not influenced by regard to personal interest or advantage;
     free from selfish motive; having no relation of interest or
     feeling; not biased or prejudiced; as, a disinterested
     decision or judge.
     [1913 Webster]


  
           The happiness of disinterested sacrifices. --Channing.
  
     Syn: Unbiased; impartial; uninterested; indifferent.
          [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  disinterested
       adj : unaffected by self-interest

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

  119 Moby Thesaurus words for "disinterested":
     Laodicean, Olympian, abstract, aloof, altruistic, apathetic,
     ataractic, benumbed, blah, blase, bored, candid, careless, casual,
     colorless, comatose, committed, consecrated, dedicated,
     desensitized, detached, devil-may-care, devoted, dispassionate,
     disregardful, distant, dull, easygoing, equitable, evenhanded,
     fair, heartless, hebetudinous, heedless, hopeless, humble,
     impartial, impassive, impersonal, in a stupor, inattentive,
     incurious, indifferent, inexcitable, insouciant, just,
     lackadaisical, languid, lethargic, listless, lofty, mindless,
     modest, negative, negligent, neutral, nonchalant, numb, numbed,
     objective, open-minded, passive, perfunctory, phlegmatic,
     pluckless, pococurante, poker-faced, reckless, regardless, remote,
     resigned, sacrificing, self-abasing, self-abnegating,
     self-abnegatory, self-denying, self-devoted, self-effacing,
     self-forgetful, self-immolating, self-neglectful, self-neglecting,
     self-renouncing, self-sacrificing, self-unconscious, selfless,
     slack, sluggish, soporific, spiritless, spunkless, stoic, stolid,
     stupefied, supine, torpid, turned-off, unacquisitive, unanxious,
     unbiased, uncaring, unconcerned, undazzled, undiscriminating,
     uninfluenced, uninquiring, uninterested, uninvolved, unjaundiced,
     unmindful, unpossessive, unprejudiced, unprepossessed,
     unpretentious, unselfish, unsolicitous, unsparing of self,
     unswayed, withdrawn