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apathetic

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Adjective
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ap=a=thet=ic

CIDE DICTIONARY

apathetica. [See Apathy.].
  •  Void of feeling; not susceptible of deep emotion; passionless.  [1913 Webster]
  •  showing a lack of interest or concern; indifferent.  [WordNet 1.5]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

apathetic, adj. having or showing no emotion or interest.

Derivative
apathetically adv.
Etymology
APATHY, after PATHETIC

THESAURUS

apathetic

Laodicean, Olympian, abeyant, affording no hope, aloof, anesthetic, ataractic, backward, balking, balky, benumbed, blah, blase, bleak, bored, callous, careless, casual, cataleptic, catatonic, centrist, cheerless, comatose, comfortless, dead, debilitated, desensitized, despairing, desperate, despondent, detached, devil-may-care, dilatory, disconsolate, disinterested, dismal, dispassionate, disregardful, distant, dopey, dormant, droopy, drugged, dry, dull, easygoing, enervated, even, exanimate, fifty-fifty, flat, forlorn, foul, grim, groggy, grudging, half-and-half, heartless, heavy, hebetudinous, heedless, hopeless, impartial, impassible, impassive, in a stupor, in abeyance, in despair, in suspense, inactive, inanimate, inattentive, incurious, independent, indifferent, inert, inexcitable, insensible, insensitive, insouciant, jaded, lackadaisical, laggard, languid, languorous, latent, leaden, lethargic, lifeless, limp, listless, loath, logy, lumpish, matter-of-fact, midway, mindless, moderate, moribund, negligent, neuter, neutral, nonaligned, nonchalant, noncommitted, nonpartisan, numb, numbed, on the fence, passive, perfunctory, phlegmatic, pluckless, pococurante, pooped, reckless, regardless, reluctant, renitent, resigned, restive, sated, sedentary, slack, sleeping, sleepy, slow, slow to, sluggish, slumbering, smoldering, somnolent, soporific, spiritless, spunkless, stagnant, stagnating, standing, static, stoic, stolid, stultified, stupefied, supine, suspended, tame, third-force, third-world, torpid, turned-off, unanxious, unaroused, uncaring, uncommitted, unconcerned, undiscriminating, unenthusiastic, unhopeful, uninquiring, uninterested, uninvolved, unmindful, unmoved, unsolicitous, untouched, unzealous, vegetable, vegetative, wan, weary, withdrawn, without hope, world-weary

ROGET THESAURUS

apathetic

Insensibility

N insensibility, insensibleness, moral insensibility, inertness, inertia, vis inertiae, impassibility, impassibleness, inappetency, apathy, phlegm, dullness, hebetude, supineness, lukewarmness, cold fit, cold blood, cold heart, coldness, coolness, frigidity, sang froid, stoicism, imperturbation, nonchalance, unconcern, dry eyes, insouciance, recklessness, callousness, heart of stone, stock and stone, marble, deadness, torpor, torpidity, obstupefaction, lethargy, coma, trance, vegetative state, sleep, suspended animation, stupor, stupefaction, paralysis, palsy, numbness, neutrality, quietism, vegetation, insensible, unconscious, impassive, impassible, blind to, deaf to, dead to, unsusceptible, insusceptible, unimpressionable, unimpressible, passionless, spiritless, heartless, soulless, unfeeling, unmoral, apathetic, leuco-, phlegmatic, dull, frigid, cold blooded, cold hearted, cold as charity, flat, maudlin, obtuse, inert, supine, sluggish, torpid, torpedinous, torporific, sleepy, languid, half-hearted, tame, numbed, comatose, anaesthetic, stupefied, chloroformed, drugged, stoned, palsy-stricken, indifferent, lukewarm, careless, mindless, regardless, inattentive, neglectful, disregarding, unconcerned, nonchalant, pococurante, insouciant, sans souci, unambitious, unaffected, unruffled, unimpressed, uninspired, unexcited, unmoved, unstirred, untouched, unshocked, unstruck, unblushing, unanimated, vegetative, callous, thick-skinned, hard-nosed, pachydermatous, impervious, hardened, inured, casehardened, steeled against, proof against, imperturbable, unfelt, insensibly, aequo animo, without being moved, without being touched, without being impressed, in cold blood, with dry eyes, with withers unwrung, never mind, macht nichts, it is of no consequence, it cannot be helped, nothing coming amiss, it is all the same to, it is all one to.


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