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4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Indifferent \In*dif"fer*ent\, a. [F. indiff['e]rent, L. indifferens. See {In-} not and {Different}.] 1. Not mal?ing 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. --Shak. Everything in the world is indifferent but sin. --Jer. Taylor. His slightest and most indifferent acts . . . were odious in the clergyman's sight. --Hawthorne. 2. Neither particularly good, not very bad of a middle state or quality; passable; mediocre. The staterooms are in indifferent order --Sir W. Scott. 3. Not inclined to one side party, or choice more than to another; neutral; impartial. Indifferent in his choice to sleep or die. --Addison. 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. --Addison. 5. (Law) Free from bias or prejudice; impartial; unbiased; disinterested. 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. --Bacon. {Indifferent tissue} (Anat.), the primitive, embryonic, undifferentiated tissue, before conversion into connective, muscular, nervous, or other definite tissue. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Indifferent \In*dif"fer*ent\, adv To a moderate degree; passably; tolerably. [Obs.] ``News indifferent good.'' --Shak. From WordNet r 1.6 [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: lacking importance; not mattering one way or the other often followed by "to"; "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: (chemistry) 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 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
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