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uninterested
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. not having or showing interest; "an uninterested spectator" [ant: interested ] having no care or interest in knowing; "she appeared totally uninterested"
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Uninterested \Un*in"ter*est*ed\, a. Not interested; not having any interest or property in; having nothing at stake; as, to be uninterested in any business. Not having the mind or the passions engaged; as, uninterested in a discourse or narration.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1640s, "unbiased," from un- (1) "not" + past participle of interest (v.). It later meant "disinterested" (1660s); sense of "unconcerned, indifferent" is recorded from 1771. This is the correct word for what often is miscalled disinterested .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ It's a pity that so many people are uninterested in science at school. ▪ Morris appeared to be completely uninterested in any of the suggestions I made. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ But he was still to all intents and purposes ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 (context obsolete English) Unmotivated by personal interest; unbiased, disinterested. 2 Not interested; indifferent, not concerned.
Usage examples of uninterested.
To say that the billionaire looked uninterested in her arrival would have been a gross understatement.
Carter seemed tentative, unwilling actually to see his slaves free, or uninterested in beginning the manumission until it was foolproof.
The men at the pizza counter were uninterested: the event occurred at the teenage stratum, which they filtered at a preconscious level.
Hugo and I fumbled our way through signing, and clear wore out that ASL dictionary but Jennie seemed totally uninterested.
Uninterested in the pleasuring of trained courtesans, Boran merely used their bodies.
Earl of Bridgeport, had been a gentle scholar, uninterested in the duties of a powerful earldom.
CT-LP has denied me my sole remaining goal of defeating Chris Shays, I have moved from being completely uninterested in drug legalization to being virulently, passionately opposed to it.
It became my credo, the central theme of my life, but if it had not been for the intolerance and pigheadedness I exhibited with such grandiosity in those years and the weird sideburns and holier-than-thou attitude that I paraded around with, I would have entered into my maturity as uninterested in the world of ideas as any other Southerner.
The clientele were mostly travellers, coming or going on trains lacking buffet cars, starving or prudent, travellers checking their watches, gulping too-hot coffee, uninterested in others, leaving in a hurry.
The Master had never been very interested in food: indeed, he had seemed rather uninterested in most things by the time Virelai had left the island, letting things go to rack and ruin, or even smashing them quite deliberately to pieces.
Uninterested in Elhim society, I did not return to the cavern, but bedded down in the woodshop, as had been my custom for the past weeks.
Tholians have always been xenophobic, territorial, and almost completely uninterested in either trade or cultural exchange with other species.
It was fifty years old, but the Investors were a persistent lot, not so much conservative as just uninterested in change.
Tosa being too uninterested in the peccadillos of peasants to involve himself in this particular theft.
After a particularly dull lecture to a group of uninterested undergraduates, he had returned, deflated and depressed, to find an E-mail communication.