All 11 Uses
indifferent
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Grendel
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- The cold night air is reality at last: indifferent to me as a stone face carved on a high cliff wall to show that the world is abandoned.†
Chpt 1indifferent = without interest
- A severed leg swells up and bursts, then an arm, then another, and the red fire turns on the blackening flesh and makes it sizzle, and it reaches higher, up and up into greasy smoke, turning, turning like falcons at warplay, rushing like circling wolves up into the swallowing, indifferent sky.†
Chpt 1
- Then little by little it dawned on me that the eyes that seemed to bore into my body were in fact gazing through it, wearily indifferent to my slight obstruction of the darkness.†
Chpt 2
- Then all at once there they'd be again, the indifferent, burning eyes of the strangers.†
Chpt 2
- I thought of my mother's foreign eyes, staring at me from across the room: I thought of the cool, indifferent eyes of the others.†
Chpt 2
- I sighed, indifferent.†
Chpt 2
- Thus I fled, ridiculous hairy creature torn apart by poetry—crawling, whimpering, streaming tears, across the world like a two-headed beast, like mixed-up lamb and kid at the tail of a baffled, indifferent ewe—and I gnashed my teeth and clutched the sides of my head as if to heal the split, but I couldn't.†
Chpt 3
- I will forget, tomorrow, so her pain is a matter of indifference.†
Chpt 10
- His mind, as he spoke, seemed far away, as if, though polite, he were indifferent to all this—an outsider not only among the Danes but everywhere.†
Chpt 11
- Solemn, humorless despite the slightly ironic smile, he suddenly cut deep—yet with the same mildness, the same almost inhuman indifference except for the pale flash of fire in his eyes.†
Chpt 11
- They watch with mindless, indifferent eyes,
Chpt 12 *indifferent = unconcerned and uninterested
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)