Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Feeling or showing a lack of interest or concern; indifferent.
- adjective Feeling or showing little or no emotion; unresponsive.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In biology, of or pertaining to the Apathetica of Lamarck.
- Characterized by apathy; having or exhibiting little or no emotion; devoid of strong feeling or passion; insensible.
- Synonyms Passionless, unmoved, unfeeling, indifferent.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Void of feeling; not susceptible of deep emotion; passionless.
- adjective showing a lack of interest or concern; indifferent.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Void offeeling ; not susceptible of deep emotion;passionless ;indifferent . - adjective Of, or pertaining to
apatheism .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective marked by a lack of interest
- adjective showing little or no emotion or animation
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The fact that some may call San Diegans lazy and apathetic is just inaccurate and beyond the bounds of reasonableness and decency.
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Each week, I watch, forcing myself to remain apathetic and not get excited.
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It came out that everyone of the youth who did not fall under the tag apathetic was viewed as a charterist by the gang in Nyanga East!
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Fromm talks about the fact that sometimes we see corruption at the highest level of our government and then people remain apathetic and don't even bother to vote.
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It came out that everyone of the youth who did not fall under the tag apathetic was viewed as a charterist by the gang in Nyanga East!
Introduction 1969
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Lisa gets criticized for being "apathetic" -- Tom says she focuses more on flavor and less on technique.
Jane McGivney: Top Chef: Better Late than Never, Right? 2008
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:) Very passionate about it, and good at inspiring passioin apathetic teenagers.
State Meme JDsg 2006
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For a generation alternatively described as apathetic and disengaged, that is surely citizenship in action; a canvas version of the "big society"?
A little bit of Ealing around St Paul's | Yvonne Roberts 2011
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Hikari Mitsushima is very good at playing depressed and apathetic, which is impressive because she used to be a cute pop idol of the kind churned out by the agencies this thread is supposed to be about.
Néojaponisme » Blog Archive » The Jimusho System: Part One 2010
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We advocate their policies when we remain apathetic.
Dell Hell, continued (and continued and continued) « BuzzMachine 2005
orbitalcombustion commented on the word apathetic
My political views: apathetic
October 6, 2007
verbocity commented on the word apathetic
My general feelings toward the world...unfortunately.
October 12, 2008
mohitanand commented on the word apathetic
marked by a lack of interest
Mr. Thompson was so talented at teaching math that even normally apathetic students took interest.
October 12, 2016