Definition of Indifferent

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Indifferent

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

Neither particularly good, not very bad; of a middle state or quality; passable; mediocre.

Not inclined to one side, party, or choice more than to another; neutral; impartial.

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

Free from bias or prejudice; impartial; unbiased; disinterested.

To a moderate degree; passably; tolerably.

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Indifferent Quotations

Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.
Henry David Thoreau

The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
Carl Sagan

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.
Blaise Pascal

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.
George Bernard Shaw

Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.
Virginia Woolf

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.
Arthur Schopenhauer

The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.
Henry Ward Beecher

Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.
Elie Wiesel

When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.
Eric Hoffer

If a person loves only one other person, and is indifferent to his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.
Germaine Greer

Indifferent Translations

indifferent in Dutch is lauw, onverschillig
indifferent in Portuguese is indiferente
indifferent in Spanish is indiferente

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