adjective
- Marked by a lack of interest.
- usage: "an apathetic audience"; "the universe is neither hostile nor friendly; it is simply indifferent"
- synonyms: apathetic
- Showing no care or concern in attitude or action.
- usage: "indifferent to the sufferings of others"; "indifferent to her plea"
- Usually followed by `to'. ( unwilling or refusing to pay heed)
- usage: "deaf to her warnings"
- synonyms: deaf
- Often followed by `to'. ( lacking importance; not mattering one way or the other)
- usage: "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"
- synonyms: immaterial
- Fairly poor to not very good.
- usage: "has an indifferent singing voice"; "has indifferent qualifications for the job"
- Having only a limited ability to react chemically; chemically inactive.
- usage: "inert matter"; "an indifferent chemical in a reaction"
- Marked by no especial liking or dislike or preference for one thing over another.
- usage: "indifferent about which book you would give them"; "was indifferent to their acceptance or rejection of her invitation"
- Characterized by a lack of partiality.
- usage: "a properly indifferent jury"; "an unbiasgoted account of her family problems"
- Being neither good nor bad.
- usage: "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"
- synonyms: so-so
- Neither too great nor too little.
- usage: "a couple of indifferent hills to climb"
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