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uninvolved

a. 1 Not involved. 2 Emotionally distant. 3 Of potential mates, available because not in a committed relationship.

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uninvolved
  1. adj. not involved; "being uninvolved he remained objective" [ant: involved]

  2. showing lack of emotional involvement; "adopted a degage pose on the arm of the easy chair"- J.S.Perelman; "she may be detached or even unfeeling but at least she's not hypocritically effusive"; "an uninvolved bystander" [syn: degage, detached]

Usage examples of "uninvolved".

His kids needed a mother to love them, not just an uninvolved housekeeper, and he suspected that whether she knew it or not, she needed them.

I had to give up power over my child to become detached and uninvolved and let him build his world.

Part of him was sad for the moth, but the rest was uninvolved, though alert and observant.

Nim guessed that Norris had preferred it when Paul Sherman Yale was in Washington and uninvolved in trust business.

This may partly explain how the idea got started that nurses are uninvolved or uncaring.

Everything that would happen through that night and the next two days, Les Chippingham declared, must not be discussed, even with others in the News Division who were uninvolved, and certainly not with outsiders, including families.

Robert Oriss had attained his position of influence without the connivance of the former regents and had been uninvolved in the coup.

It was already established that Caraine of Hertz-sprung, Lilisaire's younger husband, their adult son Bornay, and Caraine's other two wives are equally uninvolved.

This last representation required careful crimping and most of her concentration, as she built up the crest of curls to an impressive height above her noble brow, but with the small portion of her mind that was uninvolved with her hair Ginger thought about the evening to come, taking her speculations about events to come in tiny sips like bitter coffee, or nibbling at them as at scorched macaroons, or paring away, cell by cell, as at the very old corn on her biggest toe.

From the safe, hitherto uninvolved distance of Amazonia he tacitly supported the military regime that had sworn to tame and civilize this land.

The Stinnes of the KGB didn't come West — not as defectors, not as agents, and especially not as solitaries who'd spend the rest of their days unrewarded, unloved, and uninvolved with the job, acting out a role in which they had no belief.

All the boys in Ypres Avenue threw stones at the soldiers, and it would have been almost impossible to have been uninvolved.