Apathetic \Ap`a*thet"ic\, Apathetical \Ap`a*thet"ic*al\a. [See
Apathy.]
Void of feeling; not susceptible of deep emotion;
passionless. a woman who became active rather than apathetic
as she grew older
[1913 Webster]
2. showing a lack of interest or concern; indifferent. an
apathetic audience
Syn: indifferent
[WordNet 1.5]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
apathetic
adj 1: showing little or no emotion or animation; "a woman who
became active rather than apathetic as she grew older"
2: marked by a lack of interest; "an apathetic audience"; "the
universe is neither hostile nor friendly; it is simply
indifferent" [syn: indifferent]
WordNet (r) 2.0
173 Moby Thesaurus words for "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vegetative, wan, weary, withdrawn, without hope, world-weary
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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