| Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922. |
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| Class VI. Words Relating to the Sentient and Moral Powers | | Section II. Personal Affections | | 3. Prospective Affections |
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| 866. Indifference. |
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| NOUN: | INDIFFERENCE, neutrality; unconcern, insouciance, nonchalance; want of -interest, - earnestness; anorexia or anorexy, inappetence or inappetency; apathy (insensibility) [See Insensibility]; supineness (inactivity) [See Inactivity]; disdain [See Contempt]; recklessness
[See Rashness]; inattention [See Inattention]; coldness &c. adj.; anaphrodisia.
ANAPHRODISIAC or antaphrodisiac; lust-quencher, passion-queller.
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| VERB: | BE INDIFFERENT &c. adj.; stand neuter; take no interest in (insensibility) [See Insensibility]; have no desire for [See Desire], have no taste for, have no relish for; not care for; care nothing -for, - about; not care a -straw (unimportance) [See Unimportance] -about, - for; not mind.
set at naught &c. (make light of) [See Underestimation]; spurn (disdain) [See Contempt].
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| ADJECTIVE: | INDIFFERENT, cold, frigid, luke-warm; cool, - as a cucumber; neutral, unconcerned, insouciant, phlegmatic, pococurantish, pococurante, easy-going, devil-may-care, careless, listless, lackadaisical; half-hearted, unambitious, unaspiring, undesirous, unsolicitous, unattracted, inappetent, all one to.
UNATTRACTIVE, unalluring, undesired, undesirable, uncared for, unwished, unvalued.
insipid [See Insipidity].
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| ADVERB: | for aught one cares; with utter indifference.
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| INTERJECTION: | NEVER MIND! who cares! it’s all one to me! |
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| QUOTATIONS: | - Let the world slide, let the world go.
- A fig for care, and a fig for woe!—Heywood
- I care for nobody, no, not I, If no one cares for me.—Bickerstaff
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