Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Not interested in something; having no interest.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not interested; not having any interest or property in something specified; not personally concerned: as, to be uninterested in business.
- Not having the mind or the passions engaged: as, to be uninterested in a discourse or narration.
- Synonyms See
disinterested .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not interested; not having any interest or property in; having nothing at stake.
- adjective Not having the mind or the passions engaged.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete Unmotivated by personal interest;
unbiased ,disinterested . - adjective Not
interested ;indifferent , not concerned.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not having or showing interest
- adjective having no care or interest in knowing
Etymologies
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Examples
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Of course, there are other kinds of consumers, and Wednesday Comics no doubt will appeal to those regular comics-shop patrons who remain uninterested in the latest continuity-intensive event.
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James, disinterested/uninterested is a good example of what I mean by uninformed advice.
Robert Hartwell Fiske strikes me as a prig and a bully « Motivated Grammar 2009
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I remain uninterested in the political agenda free enterprise driven efforts that to date have to a large degree fallen in their face as well they should.
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This was a great review although I do have to say, old fogy that I am, that on Monday I told my Basic Writing Skills students at Fordham that distinterested doesn't mean "uninterested" -- a very good job of criticism.
brothercyst N A 2007
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Emanuel are described as uninterested in either the legal or policy merits of the issue of a criminal investigation.
President Carter: Many Children Were Tortured Under Bush 2009
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Getting back to the point of Professor Althouse's post, Barack Obama has been described as uninterested in foreign policy.
"Why couldn't President Obama have put on more of a show for his British guests?" Ann Althouse 2009
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We're all welcome to our pet peeves, and I certainly have some "loathe" for "loath" annoys me, as does "disinterested" for "uninterested" -- the latter I can justify as a useful distinction, though, but I try to let my desire for a lively and vivid language overcome my occasional desire to battle the barbarians.
Archive 2008-04-01 2008
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We're all welcome to our pet peeves, and I certainly have some "loathe" for "loath" annoys me, as does "disinterested" for "uninterested" -- the latter I can justify as a useful distinction, though, but I try to let my desire for a lively and vivid language overcome my occasional desire to battle the barbarians.
Alright Already! 2008
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-don't even say his name in the same sentence as "uninterested"-so, no.
Desperate to Dance Miss Snark 2005
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But the natives appear to be growing uninterested, which is far worse than restless.
chicagotribune.com - 2010
oroboros commented on the word uninterested
Incorrectly used if meant as disinterested.
March 29, 2008