noun
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A person who is indifferent or apathetic.
adjective
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Not caring or concerned; uninterested, apathetic.
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He was indifferent to the proposal, since it didn’t affect him, either way.
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Indicating or reflecting a lack of concern or care.
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She responded with an indifferent shrug.
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Mediocre (usually used negatively in modern usage).
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The long distance and the indifferent roads made the journey impossible.
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Having no preference or bias, being impartial.
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I am indifferent between the two plans.
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Not making a difference; without significance or importance.
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Even if one appliance consumes an indifferent amount of energy when left on stand-by overnight, together they can represent 10% of the electricity demand of a household.
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Being in the state of neutral equilibrium.
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Not different, matching.
adverb
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To some extent, in some degree (intermediate between very and not at all); moderately, tolerably, fairly.
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The face of the Moon appearing to me to be full of indifferent high mountains...
Examples of indifferent in a Sentence
Mr. Reynolds was indifferent to the subject.
I was strong, active, indifferent to consequences.
Similar magnetic poles are not merely indifferent to each other, but exhibit actual repulsion.
Many various, indifferent, and insignificant people appeared before him.
These minor enemies were, however, unready and their troops were mostly of indifferent quality.
But as the German princes were either too busy or too indifferent to attack the duke, the agitation against him soon died away.
Phellos, a rather large tree found on swampy land in the southern states, is the most important of this group; its timber is of indifferent quality.
The princess went up to the door, passed by it with a dignified and indifferent air, and glanced into the little drawing room.
Any prospect of awakening or coming to life to a dead man makes indifferent all times and places.
If then he was indifferent to the problem, he can hardly be credited with the Eleatic solution.
In the Tertiary region are found small quantities of iron ore and an indifferent brown coal.
The country proved hostile or at the best indifferent.
None of these poems show any very patriotic feeling, though Chartier's prose is evidence that he was not indifferent to the misfortunes of his country.
Pierre felt it strange to see this calm, indifferent crowd of people unaware of what was going on in his soul.
He was as indifferent as heretofore to money matters, but now he felt certain of what ought and what ought not to be done.
Meeting at large gatherings Julie and Boris looked on one another as the only souls who understood one another in a world of indifferent people.
The Angora is a bad milker and an indifferent mother, but its flesh is better than that of any other breed, and in its native country is preferred to mutton.
The horses are of indifferent breed, apparently of a type much inferior to that possessed by the ancient Egyptians.
It might be supposed that hydraulic cements from their nature would be indifferent to the action of water, but this is only true if the structures of which they form part are sufficiently compact.
The waron the continent had been waged with indifferent success.
Mr. Reynolds was indifferent to the subject, though.
But he was far from indifferent to the progress of the revolution.
They are the most resistant to unfavourable conditions of environment, and are able, by a process of parthenogenesis, to give rise to ordinary, indifferent forms again, which can repopulate the gnat.
Being strongly in favour of peace, Pelham carried on the war with languor and indifferent success, but the country, wearied of the interminable struggle, was disposed to acquiesce in his foreign policy almost without a murmur.
The interesting philological tractate Of the Orthographie and Congruitie of the Britan Tongue by Alexander Hume (not the verse writer, u.s.) is in its language a medley; and William Lithgow had travelled too widely to retain his native speech in purity, even in his indifferent verse.
The change made in the character of Sorrow made Indulgences all the more necessary for the indifferent penitent.
Accordingly, if these general characteristics do not possess reality, things are reduced to a number of characterless and mutually indifferent points.
The kernel of the large-fruited variety is of very indifferent quality, but its large shells are made use of by the French as trinket cases.
This, however, meant a two days' march along indifferent roads.
No-one has the right to remain indifferent in the face of this reality.
Gladstone died, and the new Liberal leaders grew even more indifferent to the demands of labor.
The soul of the authentic European, however indifferent he may be to his past, is not so riven.
Irwin wins tourney for third time in five years Hale Irwin's days of " indifferent " golf are over.
In these further provinces of Iran the Macedonian invader had for the first time to encounter a serious national opposition, for in the west the Iranian rule had been merely the supremacy of an alien power over native populations indifferent or hostile.
While Luther studied the Scriptures in search of true doctrine and Christian life and was indifferent to forms of church polity, they studied the New Testament not only in search of primitive church doctrine but also of primitive of the church polity.
Phellos, a rather large tree found on swampy land in the southern states, is the most important of this group; itstimberisof indifferent quality.
But oppressive, corrupt and inefficient as it was, the government was not confronted by the uncompromising hostility of the whole people; the ignorant priest-ridden masses were either indifferent or of mildly Bourbon sympathies; the opposition was constituted by the educated middle classes and a part of the aobility.
Notwithstanding the changes in organization and terminology, the officials remained ignorant, indolent, careless, indifferent to the public welfare, high-handed and extortionate, and the local self-government which was intended to enlighten and control them proved sadly wanting in vitality and practically worthless.
Baudry wrote a number of Latin poems of very indifferent quality.
The prince was silent and looked indifferent.
The development of an indifferent ookinete into, an indifferent Trypanosome is shown in fig.
The indifferent parasites exhibit an alternation of resting, attached phases with active periods, during which they multiply actively and become very abundant in the insect.
In these contests the German king met with indifferent success, but the struggle with Saxony was not very serious, and when dying in December 919 Conrad recommended the Franconian nobles to offer the crown to Henry, the only man who could cope with the anarchy by which he had himself been baffled.
When, towards the close of the century, the desire for independence began to manifest itself throughout the Spanish colonies of South America, Quito did not remain altogether indifferent.
Their professed bewilderment, following 1916, seemed to confirm that they were totally indifferent to Ireland's struggle for national and social independence.
She sat without a word, seemingly indifferent to my presence.
Hard to explain, am learning to become indifferent toward it.
At first he heard the sound of indifferent voices, then Anna Mikhaylovna's voice alone in a long speech, then a cry, then silence, then both voices together with glad intonations, and then footsteps.
On hearing this indifferent voice, Rostov grew frightened at what he was doing; the thought of meeting the Emperor at any moment was so fascinating and consequently so alarming that he was ready to run away, but the official who had questioned him opened the door, and Rostov entered.
He entered his wife's drawing room as one enters a theater, was acquainted with everybody, equally pleased to see everyone, and equally indifferent to them all.