If you're indifferent about something, you don't care much about it one way or another. You might feel indifferent about politics, changing the channel whenever the TV news comes on.
Not maling 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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showing no care or concern in attitude or action; "indifferent to the sufferings of others"; "indifferent to her plea"
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(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"
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marked by a lack of interest; "an apathetic audience"; "the universe is neither hostile nor friendly; it is simply indifferent"
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neither too great nor too little; "a couple of indifferent hills to climb"
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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"
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characterized by a lack of partiality; "a properly indifferent jury"; "an unbiased account of her family problems"
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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"
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having only a limited ability to react chemically; not active; "inert matter"; "an indifferent chemical in a reaction"
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fairly poor to not very good; "has an indifferent singing voice"; "has indifferent qualifications for the job"
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Not mal/ing 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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Neither particularly good, not very bad; of a middle
state or quality; passable; mediocre.
a.
Not inclined to one side, party, or choice more than
to another; neutral; impartial.
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Feeling no interest, anxiety, or care, respecting
anything; unconcerned; inattentive; apathetic; heedless; as, to be
indifferent to the welfare of one's family.
a.
Free from bias or prejudice; impartial; unbiased;
disinterested.
adv.
To a moderate degree; passably; tolerably.
Indifferent
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.
The staterooms are in indifferent order.3.
Indifferent in his choice to sleep or die.4.
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.
In choice of committees for ripening business for the counsel, it is better indifferent persons than to make an indifferency by putting in those that are strong on both sides.
Indifferent
Not maling a difference; having no influence or preponderating weight; involving no preference, concern, or attention; of no account; without significance or importance.
To a moderate degree; passably; tolerably.
Usage Examples
The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.
Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people.
Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.
Those whom we can love, we can hate to others we are indifferent.
If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.
Those who condemn gay marriage, yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce, are, in my view, missing the real issue.
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Other Usage ExamplesMen are by nature merely indifferent to one another but women are by nature enemies.
Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.
Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
Human nature doesn't include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics, religion, virtually anything.
Today's preoccupation with physical theories of everything takes a wrong turn from the purpose of science - to question all things relentlessly. Modern physics has become like Swift's kingdom of Laputa, flying absurdly on an island above the earth and indifferent to what is beneath.
A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right tone for every occasion.
A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.
We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from.
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