All 4 Uses of
indifferent
in
Pygmalion
- Eliza tries to control herself and feel indifferent as she rises and walks across to the hearth to switch off the lights.†
Act 4
- When Higgins excused his indifference to young women on the ground that they had an irresistible rival in his mother, he gave the clue to his inveterate old-bachelordom.†
Act 5
- Some of the acquaintances to whom she had been a tedious or indifferent or ridiculous affliction, dropped her:
Act 5 *indifferent = without interest (average)
- The very scrupulousness with which he told her that day that he had become used to having her there, and dependent on her for all sorts of little services, and that he should miss her if she went away (it would never have occurred to Freddy or the Colonel to say anything of the sort) deepens her inner certainty that she is "no more to him than them slippers", yet she has a sense, too, that his indifference is deeper than the infatuation of commoner souls.†
Act 5
Definition:
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(indifferent) without interestin various senses, including:
- unconcerned -- as in "She is indifferent to what is served to eat."
- unsympathetic -- as in "She is indifferent to his needs."
- not of good quality (which may imply average or poor quality depending upon context) -- as in "an indifferent performance"
- impartial -- as in "We need a judge who is indifferent."