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/ɪndˈɪfrənt/ /ɪndˈɪfərənt/ Listen

adjective

Indifferent adj.

1.

Not making a difference; having no influence or preponderating weight; involving no preference, concern, or attention; of no account; without significance or importance. "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.

Neither particularly good, not very bad; of a middle state or quality; passable; mediocre. "The staterooms are in indifferent order."

3.

Not inclined to one side, party, or choice more than to another; neutral; impartial. "Indifferent in his choice to sleep or die."

4.

Feeling no interest, anxiety, or care, respecting anything; unconcerned; inattentive; apathetic; heedless; as, to be indifferent to the welfare of one's family. "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.

(Law) Free from bias or prejudice; impartial; unbiased; disinterested. "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."

Indifferent tissue (Anat.), the primitive, embryonic, undifferentiated tissue, before conversion into connective, muscular, nervous, or other definite tissue.

adverb

Indifferent adv. To a moderate degree; passably; tolerably. (Obs.) "News indifferent good."

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"Indifferent" Quotes from Famous Books

... active piety; to put the interests of religion into the hands of such men would seem to be a dangerous experiment. Especially is it true of the mercantile classes, of those who are pecuniarily best able to maintain religious institutions, that they are in general indifferent to religious things. This being the case, one cannot be surprised at the reluctance of those in ecclesiastical authority to desire the support of the state to be withdrawn. Neverheless it cannot but widen the chasm between the established ...

— The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, October, 1864 - Devoted To Literature And National Policy • Various

... She had no feeling for these relations who had been so indifferent to her while she was poor and who had treated darling ...

— Beyond The Rocks - A Love Story • Elinor Glyn

... to her said: I cannot think how 'tis, your cousin's led, (Though quite indifferent he is to me, And doubtless such will ever prove to be) With various fond attentions, to pretend, He loves me—much beyond a common friend. My window oft he passes day and night; I cannot move a step, but he's in sight, And in a ...

— The Tales and Novels, Complete • Jean de La Fontaine

... rather than disobedient. He had not refused to go on when the moment came for starting, but had left it in doubt till the last moment whether he did or did not intend to prosecute his journey. When the ticket was taken for him he pretended to be altogether indifferent about it, and would himself give no help whatever in any of the usual troubles of travelling. But as far as this little town of Leavenworth he had been carried, and Peacocke now began to think it probable that he might succeed in taking him to ...

— Dr. Wortle's School • Anthony Trollope

... on the window-seat, industriously burnishing a cuirass. He pursued his task, indifferent to the newcomer's advent, until the knave who had conducted thither the Parisian called the boy and bade him go tell the Marquise that a Monsieur de Garnache, with a message from the ...

— St. Martin's Summer • Rafael Sabatini

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