Definition of Indifferent

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 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

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

Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins.
Thomas Aquinas

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

We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.
Benjamin Disraeli

Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.
Galileo Galilei

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

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

A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.
Peter Marshall

The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.
James Joyce

If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.
Erich Fromm

Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
Adlai E. Stevenson

A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right tone for every occasion.
Marshall McLuhan

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

Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
John Maynard Keynes

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

What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.
Ovid

The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of care: and then, to so much of the rest of life, is indifferent. Whereas, the European hasn't got so much care in him, so he cares much more for life and living.
David Herbert Lawrence

Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people.
Theodor Adorno

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.
Baruch Spinoza

Some of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our circumstances. For years we lived anyhow with one another in the naked desert, under the indifferent heaven.
T. E. Lawrence

In the long run, you make your own luck - good, bad, or indifferent.
Loretta Lynn

The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.
E. M. Forster

Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent.
George Steiner

But then in novels the most indifferent hero comes out right at last. Some god comes out of a theatrical cloud and leaves the poor devil ten thousand-a-year and a title.
Anthony Trollope

Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
B. C. Forbes

There's nothing in the world that isn't good, bad, and indifferent.
Ninette de Valois

The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions.
Charles Babbage

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Indifferent Translations

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

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