uninterested

[ uhn-in-ter-uh-stid, -truh-stid, -tuh-res-tid ]

adjective

1. having or showing no feeling of interest; indifferent.
2. not personally concerned in something.

   Synonyms: unconcerned

uninterested

/ -tərɪs-; ʌnˈɪntrɪstɪd /

adjective

1. indifferent; unconcerned

Usage

See disinterested

Confusables Note

See disinterested.

Derived Forms

• unˈinterestedness, noun
• unˈinterestedly, adverb

Other Words From

• un·inter·est·ed·ly adverb
• un·inter·est·ed·ness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of uninterested¹

First recorded in 1640–50; un- ¹ + interested

Example Sentences

Meanwhile, not appointing anyone would show the GOP to be uninterested in any accounting.

From Washington Post

Yet Mainers seem mostly uninterested in owning pet jaguarundis, at least in comparison with Hoosiers.

From Popular-Science

Even as she clearly longs for acceptance, she’s completely uninterested in other people.

From Vox

The tech giants seem uninterested in owning a media company and attracting even more regulatory attention.

From Digiday

It’s not that advertisers are uninterested in media companies’ platform video inventory.

From Digiday

Millennials—rich or otherwise—have been notoriously uninterested in politics.

From The Daily Beast

But unlike other recent books in its genre, Unspeakable Things is markedly uninterested in converting its readers.

From The Daily Beast

Yet one topic Waters is uninterested in exploring is politics.

From The Daily Beast

Yet even her peers on scientific advisory boards appear uninterested, she says.

From The Daily Beast

Never has someone so uninterested in pussy thought so long and hard about it.

From The Daily Beast

Marie answered him whenever his monologue required answer, but she was unresponsive, uninterested—bored.

From Project Gutenberg

At a time when Darwinism was bringing a sword into the intellectual world, he lived apparently uninterested and untouched by it.

From Project Gutenberg

He faced the fact flatly and with the cool consideration of an uninterested counsellor.

From Project Gutenberg

"No doubt you're right," murmured old Neeld, both uneasy and uninterested.

From Project Gutenberg

"How to interest the uninterested," is the missionary puzzle of the times.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• apathetic
• disinterested
• indifferent
• listless
• unconcerned
• uninvolved
• weary