Indifferent

6 definitions found

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

  Indifferent \In*dif"fer*ent\, a. [F. indiff['e]rent, L.
     indifferens. See {In-} not, and {Different}.]
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     1. Not making a difference; having no influence or
        preponderating weight; involving no preference, concern,
        or attention; of no account; without significance or


        importance.
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              Dangers are to me indifferent.        --Shak.
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              Everything in the world is indifferent but sin.
                                                    --Jer. Taylor.
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              His slightest and most indifferent acts . . . were
              odious in the clergyman's sight.      --Hawthorne.
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     2. Neither particularly good, not very bad; of a middle state
        or quality; passable; mediocre.
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              The staterooms are in indifferent order. --Sir W.
                                                    Scott.
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     3. Not inclined to one side, party, or choice more than to
        another; neutral; impartial.
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              Indifferent in his choice to sleep or die.
                                                    --Addison.
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     4. Feeling no interest, anxiety, or care, respecting
        anything; unconcerned; inattentive; apathetic; heedless;
        as, to be indifferent to the welfare of one's family.
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              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.                           --Addison.
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     5. (Law) Free from bias or prejudice; impartial; unbiased;
        disinterested.
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              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.  --Bacon.
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     {Indifferent tissue} (Anat.), the primitive, embryonic,
        undifferentiated tissue, before conversion into
        connective, muscular, nervous, or other definite tissue.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Indifferent \In*dif"fer*ent\, adv.
     To a moderate degree; passably; tolerably. [Obs.] "News
     indifferent good." --Shak.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  indifferent
       adj 1: marked by a lack of interest; "an apathetic audience"; "the
              universe is neither hostile nor friendly; it is simply
              indifferent" [syn: {apathetic}]
       2: showing no care or concern in attitude or action;
          "indifferent to the sufferings of others"; "indifferent to
          her plea"
       3: (usually followed by `to') unwilling or refusing to pay
          heed; "deaf to her warnings" [syn: {deaf(p)}, {indifferent(p)}]
       4: (often followed by `to') lacking importance; not mattering
          one way or the other; "whether you choose to do it or not
          is a matter that is quite immaterial (or indifferent)";
          "what others think is altogether indifferent to him" [syn:
           {immaterial}]
       5: fairly poor to not very good; "has an indifferent singing
          voice"; "has indifferent qualifications for the job"
       6: having only a limited ability to react chemically; not
          active; "inert matter"; "an indifferent chemical in a
          reaction" [syn: {inert}, {neutral}]
       7: marked by no especial liking or dislike or preference for
          one thing over another; "indifferent about which book you
          would give them"; "was indifferent to their acceptance or
          rejection of her invitation"
       8: characterized by a lack of partiality; "a properly
          indifferent jury"; "an unbiased account of her family
          problems" [syn: {unbiased}, {unbiassed}]
       9: neither good nor bad; "an indifferent performance"; "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" [syn: {passable}, {so-so(p)},
           {tolerable}]
       10: neither too great nor too little; "a couple of indifferent
           hills to climb"

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

  253 Moby Thesaurus words for "indifferent":
     Laodicean, Olympian, airy, aloof, apathetic, average, backward,
     balking, balky, benumbed, betwixt and between, blah, blase, bored,
     by-the-way, callous, careless, casual, centrist, chill, cold,
     comatose, commonplace, cool, cursory, dead, degage, desensitized,
     detached, devil-may-care, dilatory, dilute, diluted, disinterested,
     dispassionate, disregardant, disregardful, distant, distracted,
     distrait, dull, easy, easygoing, emotionless, equitable, even,
     evenhanded, everyday, fade, fair, fair to middling, fairish,
     fervorless, fifty-fifty, flat, flavorless, flippant, forgetful,
     free and easy, frigid, glacial, grudging, gruelly, half-and-half,
     halfhearted, heartless, hebetudinous, heedless, hopeless, icy,
     immaterial, impartial, impassive, impersonal, impotent, imprecise,
     in a stupor, inadvertent, inane, inappreciable, inattentive,
     inconsequential, inconsiderate, incurious, independent,
     indevotional, indevout, indifferentist, inferior, inobservant,
     insensible, insensitive, insignificant, insipid, insouciant,
     intermediate, jejune, just, lackadaisical, lackluster, laggard,
     languid, lax, lazy, lenient, lethargic, lightweight, listless,
     loath, loose, lukewarm, mean, mediocre, medium, middling, midway,
     mild, milk-and-water, mindless, minor, moderate, modest,
     namby-pamby, negligent, neuter, neutral, nonaligned, nonchalant,
     noncommitted, nonobservant, nonpartisan, nonreligious, not bad,
     nugatory, numb, numbed, objective, oblivious, of a kind, of a sort,
     of sorts, offhand, on the fence, ordinary, overindulgent,
     overpermissive, pappy, passable, passive, perfunctory, permissive,
     phlegmatic, pluckless, pococurante, poor, pulpy, reckless,
     regardless, relaxed, reluctant, remiss, remote, removed, renitent,
     resigned, respectable, respectless, restive, sapless, savorless,
     slack, slight, slipshod, sloppy, slow, slow to, sluggish, so so,
     so-so, soft, soporific, spiceless, spiritless, spunkless, stale,
     stoic, stolid, stupefied, supine, tactless, tasteless, tedious,
     tepid, thin, third-force, third-world, thoughtless, tolerable,
     torpid, trifling, trivial, unbiased, uncaring, uncommitted,
     uncompassionate, unconcerned, undazzled, undevout, undiplomatic,
     undistinguished, undutiful, unemotional, unenthusiastic, unfeeling,
     unflavored, unheedful, unheeding, unimportant, uninfluenced,
     uninquiring, uninspired, uninterested, uninvolved, unjaundiced,
     unmarking, unmindful, unnoticing, unnoting, unobservant,
     unobserving, unprejudiced, unprepared, unprepossessed, unready,
     unreligious, unremarking, unrestrained, unsavory, unsolicitous,
     unswayed, unsympathetic, untactful, unthinking, unzealous, vapid,
     washy, watered, watered-down, watery, weak, wishy-washy, withdrawn,
     zealless
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  INDIFFERENT. To have no bias nor partiality. 7 Conn. 229. A juror, an 
  arbitrator, and a witness, ought to be indifferent, and when they are not 
  so, they may be challenged. See 9 Conn. 42. 
  
  

From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  INDIFFERENT, adj.  Imperfectly sensible to distinctions among things.
  
      "You tiresome man!" cried Indolentio's wife,
      "You've grown indifferent to all in life."
      "Indifferent?" he drawled with a slow smile;
      "I would be, dear, but it is not worth while."
                                                       Apuleius M. Gokul