All 17 Uses
indifferent
in
One Hundred Years of Solitude
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- Then, indifferent to those who came close to look at him, he kept his attention concentrated on the palm roof, which looked as if it were about to collapse under the tremendous pressure of the rain.†
Chpt 1indifferent = without interest
- It was a fine June night, cool and with a moon, and they were awake and frolicking in bed until dawn, indifferent to the breeze that passed through the bedroom, loaded with the weeping of Prudencio Aguilar's kin.†
Chpt 2
- But when she came into the house, merry, indifferent, chatty, he did not have to make any effort to hide his tension, because that woman, whose explosive laugh frightened off the doves, had nothing to do with the invisible power that taught him how to breathe from within and control his heartbeats, and that had permitted him to understand why man are afraid of death.†
Chpt 2
- In spite of the girl's efforts he felt more and more indifferent and terribly alone.†
Chpt 3
- He seemed so peaceful, so indifferent to everything that she decided to release him.†
Chpt 6
- They would sit on the porch, suffocated by the oregano and the roses, he reading and she sewing lace cuffs, indifferent to the shocks and bad news of the war, until the mosquitoes made them take refuge in the parlor.†
Chpt 6
- Ursula was, in the doorway waiting, indifferent to the cannon shots that had opened up a hole in the front of the house next door.†
Chpt 6
- Indifferent to her husband's logic, Rebeca stayed by the window.†
Chpt 7
- Aureliano, Jose did not realize how much ground he had lost on, the night he could no longer bear the farce of indifference and went back to Amaranta's room.†
Chpt 8
- Remedios the Beauty, who seemed indifferent to everything and who was thought to be mentally retarded, was not insensitive to so much devotion and she intervened in Colonel Gerineldo Marquez's favor.†
Chpt 9
- When she returned home she shut herself up in her room to weep, indifferent to Don Fernando's pleas and explanations...
Chpt 11 *
- If Aureliano Segundo had something of his great-grandfather in him and lacked something of Colonel Aureliano Buendia, it was an absolute indifference to mockery, and he gave the money to bring the railroad with the same lighthearted air with which he had given it for his brother's absurd navigation project.†
Chpt 11
- She was becalmed in a magnificent adolescence, more and more impenetrable to formality, more and more indifferent to malice and suspicion, happy in her own world of simple realities.†
Chpt 12
- Meme had indeed signed once she was already behind the iron grating and she did it with the same indifference with which she had allowed herself to be led away.†
Chpt 15
- Jose Arcadio Segundo, devoured by baldness, indifferent to the air that had been sharpened by the nauseating vapors, was still reading and rereading the unintelligible parchments.†
Chpt 15
- His indifference toward the world was so certain that a few days later Jose Arcadio violated the promise he had made to his mother and left him free to go out whenever he wanted to.†
Chpt 18
- He smashed his fists against the cement wall of The Golden Child, calling for Pilar Ternera, indifferent to the luminous orange disks that were crossing the sky and that so many times on holiday nights he had contemplated with childish fascination from the courtyard of the curlews.†
Chpt 20
Definitions:
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(1)
(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."
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)