uninterested

adjectiveB2+Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #14,063 of 15,258leans written

Uninterested means not caring about something at all. It could be fascinating and you would still be looking out of the window.

It takes in. The word is worth guarding, because it is constantly confused with disinterested, which strictly means impartial. A judge should be disinterested and had better not be uninterested, and that sentence is the clearest way to hold the difference. Bored describes the state of suffering it, and indifferent covers roughly the same ground with slightly more coolness.

Definitions of uninterested

1adjectiveuninterestedNot interested in something.B2+
“He was entirely uninterested in the outcome.”

Where it comes from

From un- + interested.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in A Man Called Ove

First appears in chapter 7 of A Man Called Ove.

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uninterested in the wild

Although for the most part Japanese academics remain uninterested in this text, some scholars are of the opinion that it may have been written in the Edo period.
Hotsuma Tsutae
Broadly, they are portrayed as unaware of or uninterested in the rest of the modern world as it remains outside their own surroundings.
Yokel
The story follows the unpopular middle schooler Dawn as she goes to extreme lengths trying to earn the respect of her vicious fellow students and her uninterested family.
Welcome to the Dollhouse
While he was regarded as a possible successor to his father as ruler of Libya, he was reportedly uninterested in the role.
Muhammad Gaddafi
The state may regard them as distinct categories of law, but international law is largely uninterested in the distinction and treats them all as one.
Municipal law

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

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