disinterested
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Disinterested \Dis*in"ter*est*ed\, a. [Cf. {Disinteressed}.]
Not influenced by regard to personal interest or advantage;
free from selfish motive; having no relation of interest or
feeling; not biased or prejudiced; as, a disinterested
decision or judge.
[1913 Webster]
The happiness of disinterested sacrifices. --Channing.
Syn: Unbiased; impartial; uninterested; indifferent.
[1913 Webster]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
119 Moby Thesaurus words for "disinterested":
Laodicean, Olympian, abstract, aloof, altruistic, apathetic,
ataractic, benumbed, blah, blase, bored, candid, careless, casual,
colorless, comatose, committed, consecrated, dedicated,
desensitized, detached, devil-may-care, devoted, dispassionate,
disregardful, distant, dull, easygoing, equitable, evenhanded,
fair, heartless, hebetudinous, heedless, hopeless, humble,
impartial, impassive, impersonal, in a stupor, inattentive,
incurious, indifferent, inexcitable, insouciant, just,
lackadaisical, languid, lethargic, listless, lofty, mindless,
modest, negative, negligent, neutral, nonchalant, numb, numbed,
objective, open-minded, passive, perfunctory, phlegmatic,
pluckless, pococurante, poker-faced, reckless, regardless, remote,
resigned, sacrificing, self-abasing, self-abnegating,
self-abnegatory, self-denying, self-devoted, self-effacing,
self-forgetful, self-immolating, self-neglectful, self-neglecting,
self-renouncing, self-sacrificing, self-unconscious, selfless,
slack, sluggish, soporific, spiritless, spunkless, stoic, stolid,
stupefied, supine, torpid, turned-off, unacquisitive, unanxious,
unbiased, uncaring, unconcerned, undazzled, undiscriminating,
uninfluenced, uninquiring, uninterested, uninvolved, unjaundiced,
unmindful, unpossessive, unprejudiced, unprepossessed,
unpretentious, unselfish, unsolicitous, unsparing of self,
unswayed, withdrawn
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