Uninterested

Definition: Uninterested

Uninterested

Adjective

1. Not having or showing interest; "an uninterested spectator".

2. Having no care or interest in knowing; "she appeared totally uninterested".

Date "uninterested" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Synonym: Uninterested

Synonym: listless. (additional references)

Antonym: interested (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Absence of Choice	Adjective: neutral, neuter; indifferent, uninterested; undecided; (irresolute).
Incuriosity	Adjective: incurious, uninquisitive, indifferent; impassive; uninterested, detached, aloof.
Weariness	Weary, tired; Verb: drowsy; (sleepy); uninterested, flagging, used up, worn out, blase, life-weary, weary of life; sick of.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Uninterested

English words defined with "uninterested": blase, bored ♦ lowbrow ♦ philistine ♦ Uninteressed. (references)

Etymologies containing "uninterested": Uninteressed. (references)

Domain

Usage

Screenplays

She seems totally uninterested in me, despite my smothering obsessiveness! (Cabin Boy; writing credit: Adam Resnick)

I don't think it is, in any way, possible for me to overstate how uninterested I am in anything that goes on between you two. (Third Watch; writing credit: Grant Taylor)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Anesthesia for the Uninterested (reference) The education of the uninterested; the W. B. Curry lecture delivered in the University of Exeter on 26 October, 1973 (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		This can give the mistaken impression that the patient is hostile or uninterested. (references)
Business		Companies and advertisers can subscribe to the Robinson List for a fee and avoid costly printing, handling, and postage costs involved in mailing advertising material to recipients completely uninterested in such material. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Uninterested" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Uninterested" is used about 143 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	143	26,451

Expression using "uninterested": be uninterested in smth.. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "uninterested"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		mospërfillës (cavalier, defiant, disdainful, flippant, impervious, indifferent, languid, neglectful, negligent, nonchalant, snooty, unsympathetic), i çinteresuar (lackadaisical). (various references)

Arabic		‏لامبال (apathetic, careless, cold-hearted, disinterested, indifferent, insouciant, nonchalant, perfunctory, unconcerned), ‏غير مولع به, ‏غير شيق. (various references)

Bulgarian		отегчен (bored, tired of, weary, world-weary), незаинтересован (complacent, dead, disinterested, unconcerned), непроявяващ интерес, безразличен (colorless, colourless, disinterested, frigid, incurious, indifferent, insensible, lukewarm, neutral, poppied, stony, tepid, unimpressed, unmoved, untouched). (various references)

Chinese		不感兴趣 (unconcerned). (various references)

Czech		nemít o koho zájem, lhostejný (apathetic, casual, cold, coldly, detached, impassive, impervious, indifferent, insensible, lackadaisical, neglectful, negligent, nonchalant, phlegmatic, unconcerned, unsympathetic). (various references)

Farsi		خونسرد (Cool, Dispassionate, Impassive, Imperturbable, Meek, Unconcerned), بی علاقه (Nonchalant, Unresponsive), بی دخل وتصرف , بدون توجه (Notwithstanding). (various references)

Finnish		välinpitämätön (indifferent, negligent, perfunctory, unconcerned), innoton (half-hearted). (various references)

French		indifférent (unconcerned, unheeding, unmindful, unmoved). (various references)

German		uninteressiert (detached, disinterested). (various references)

Greek		αδιάφοροσ (blasι, dead to, incurious, indifferent, lackadaisical, listless, lukewarm, nonchalant, unconcerned). (various references)

Hungarian		közönyös (apathetic, apathetical, cold, detached, languid, negligent, nonchalant, phlegmatic, pococurante, stolid, unconcerned). (various references)

Indonesian		tak tertarik (indifferent). (various references)

Italian		indifferente (apathetic, apathetical, blasé, callous, cold, cold-hearted, cool, half hearted, immaterial, impassible, indifferent, listless, lukewarm, nonchalant, unconcerned). (various references)

Korean		공평한. (various references)

Pig Latin		interestedunay

Portuguese		indiferente (aloof, callous, chill, chilly, chippy, cool, devil-may-care, freezing, frigid, frosty, immaterial, impassible, incurious, indifferent, insensitive, laodicean, listless, lukewarm, negligent, nonchalant, passive, pococurante, reckless, regardless, supine, unconcern, unconcerned, unresponsive), desinteressado (aloof, candid, devil-may-care, disinterested, indifferent, laodicean, listless, lukewarm, nonchalant, non-partisan, passive, unbiased, unconcern, unconcerned, unselfish, unworldly). (various references)

Russian		не заинтересованный, безразличный (apathetic, apathetical, disinterested, frigid, indifferent, indolent, laodicean, listless, lukewarm). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		ravnodušan (apathetic, apathetical, cold, indifferent, listless, lukewarm, neutral, phlegmatic, pococurante, unconcerned), nezainteresovan (disinterested, indifferent). (various references)

Spanish		desinteresado (cheerless, detached, disinterested, evenhanded, fairminded, impartial, indifferent, selfless). (various references)

Swedish		ointresserad (disinterested, incurious, lackadaisical, unconcerned, unintrested). (various references)

Turkish		ilgisiz (aloof, apathetic, apathetical, careless, complacent, disinterested, does not apply, impertinent, incurious, indifferent, insensible, insouciant, irrelevant, listless, lukewarm, nonchalant, oblivious, phlegmatic, phlegmatical, standoffish, superior, unallied, unconcerned, unconnected, unobliging, unrelated), ilgilenmeyen. (various references)

Ukrainian		не зацікавлений, байдужий (apathetic, apathetical, barren, chill, cold, cold blooded, cold-hearted, cold-livered, disinterested, frigid, half hearted, impassible, indifferent, insensible, insentient, neutral, nonchalant, passionless, unaffected, unconcerned, unmoved). (various references)

Vietnamese		không quan tâm (indifferent, thoughtless, unconcerned, unthoughtful), không chú ý (careless, heedless, inattentive, mind, unmindful), không cầu lợi, không để ý vô tư. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "uninterested" (pronounced uni"ntrustud)
9	-i" n t r u s t u d	disinterested, interested.
6	-r u s t u d	forested.
5	-u s t u d	harvested.
4	-s t u d	accosted, adjusted, arrested, assisted, attested, bested, blacklisted, blasted, boasted, boosted, breasted, busted, chested, coasted, coexisted, congested, consisted, contested, contrasted, costed, crested, crusted, delisted, detested, digested, disgusted, distrusted, divested, dusted, encrusted, enlisted, entrusted, exhausted, existed, fasted, feasted, fisted, flabbergasted, foisted, forecasted, frosted, guested, gusted, hoisted, hosted, infested, ingested, insisted, invested, lambasted, lasted, listed, lusted, maladjusted, manifested, masted, mistrusted, molested, nested, ousted, outlasted, pasted, persisted, posted, preexisted, protested, readjusted, rearrested, reinvested, requested, resisted, rested, retested, roasted, roosted, rusted, sandblasted, suggested, tasted, tested, tightfisted, toasted, trusted, twisted, unadjusted, unassisted, uncontested, unlisted, unmolested, untested, vested, wasted, worsted, wrested.
3	-t u d	abated, abbreviated, abdicated, abducted, abetted, aborted, abrogated, abstracted, abutted, accelerated, accented, accentuated, accepted, acclimated, accommodated, accounted, accredited, accumulated, acquainted, acquitted, acted, activated, adapted, addicted, adjudicated, admitted, adopted, adulterated, advocated, affected, affiliated, afflicted, affronted, aggravated, aggregated, agitated, airlifted, alerted, alienated, alleviated, allocated, allotted, alternated, amalgamated, ameliorated, amounted, amputated, angulated, animated, annihilated, annotated, anted, anticipated, antiquated, appointed, appreciated, appropriated, approximated, arbitrated, articulated, aspirated, assassinated, assaulted, asserted, assimilated, associated, assorted, attempted, attenuated, attracted, attributed, audited, augmented, authenticated, automated, averted, awaited, backdated, baited, bankrupted, bated, batted, belated, belted, benefited, benefitted, benighted, berated, bifurcated, bigoted, blanketed, blighted, bloated, blunted, blurted, boated, bolted, booted, boycotted, budgeted, caffeinated, calculated, calibrated, capitulated, captivated, carbonated, carbureted, carotid, carpeted, carted, castigated, castrated, catapulted, celebrated, cemented, chanted, charted, chatted, cheated, chlorinated, circuited, circulated, circumvented, cited, closeted, clotted, coated, collaborated, collected, comforted, commemorated, commented, committed, communicated, commuted, compacted, compensated, competed, complemented, completed, complicated, complimented, computed, conceited, concentrated, concerted, concocted, conducted, confiscated, conflicted, confronted, congratulated, congregated, conjugated, connected, conscripted, consecrated, consented, consolidated, constipated, constituted, constricted, constructed, consulted, consummated, contacted, contaminated, contemplated, contented, contorted, contracted, contradicted, contributed, converted, convicted, convoluted, cooperated, coordinated, copyrighted, corrected, correlated, corroborated, corrugated, corrupted, counted, counteracted, counterfeited, courted, coveted, crafted, created, credited, cremated, crenelated, culminated, cultivated, darted, dated, daunted, deactivated, debated, debilitated, decaffeinated, decapitated, decelerated, decimated, decontaminated, decorated, dedicated, deducted, defaulted, defeated, defected, deflated, deflected, degenerated, dehydrated, dejected, delegated, deleted, deliberated, delighted, delineated, demented, demonstrated, demoted, denigrated, denominated, denoted, dented, departed, depicted, depleted, deported, deposited, depreciated, deregulated, desecrated, desegregated, deserted, designated, destructed, detected, deteriorated, detonated, detracted, devaluated, devastated, deviated, devoted, dictated, differentiated, dilapidated, dilated, diluted, directed, disaffected, disappointed, disassociated, disconnected, discontented, discounted, discredited, discriminated, disenchanted, disintegrated, disinvited, disjointed, dislocated, disoriented, dispirited, disputed, disrespected, disrupted, dissected, disseminated, dissented, dissipated, distorted, distracted, distributed, diverted, documented, domesticated, dominated, donated, dotted, doubted, drafted, drifted, duplicated, edited, educated, effected, ejected, elaborated, elated, elected, electrocuted, elevated, elicited, eliminated, elongated, elucidated, emaciated, emanated, emancipated, emasculated, emigrated, emitted, emulated, enacted, encapsulated, enchanted, encrypted, enumerated, enunciated, equated, eradicated, erected, erupted, escalated, escorted, estimated, evacuated, evaluated, evaporated, evicted, eviscerated, exacerbated, exacted, exaggerated, exalted, exasperated, excavated, excepted, excerpted, excited, excommunicated, excoriated, executed, exempted, exerted, exhibited, exhilarated, exhorted, exited, exonerated, expected, expedited, experimented, exploited, exported, expropriated, exterminated, extorted, extracted, extradited, extrapolated, extricated, extroverted, exulted, fabricated, faceted, facilitated, fainted, fainthearted, farsighted, fascinated, fated, faulted, federated, fermented, ferreted, feted, fetid, filleted, fingerprinted, fitted, fixated, flagellated, flaunted, flirted, floated, flouted, fluctuated, fomented, footed, footnoted, forfeited, formulated, fragmented, frequented, fretted, fronted, frustrated, gated, generated, germinated, gifted, glaciated, gloated, glutted, graduated, grafted, granted, grated, gravitated, greeted, grunted, gutted, gyrated, halfhearted, hallucinated, halogenated, halted, handcrafted, hated, hearted, heated, helmeted, hesitated, highlighted, hinted, hooted, humiliated, hunted, hydrated, hydrogenated, hyphenated, ignited, illuminated, illustrated, imitated, immigrated, impacted, imparted, impersonated, implanted, implemented, implicated, imported, impregnated, imprinted, imputed, inactivated, inaugurated, incapacitated, incarcerated, incinerated, incited, incorporated, inculcated, indebted, indicated, indicted, indited, indoctrinated, inducted, infatuated, infected, infiltrated, inflated, inflected, inflicted, infuriated, inhabited, inherited, inhibited, initiated, injected, innovated, inoculated, inserted, insinuated, inspected, instigated, instituted, instructed, insulated, insulted, integrated, interacted, intercepted, interconnected, interdicted, interjected, interpolated, interpreted, interrelated, interrogated, interrupted, intersected, intimated, intimidated, intoxicated, introverted, inundated, invalidated, invented, inverted, investigated, invigorated, invited, irradiated, irrigated, irritated, isolated, jacketed, jetted, jilted, jointed, jolted, jotted, knighted, knitted, knotted, lamented, laminated, legislated, levitated, liberated, lifted, lighted, lighthearted, limited, liquidated, litigated, located, looted, lubricated, malted, maltreated, mandated, manipulated, marinated, marketed, masturbated, mated, mediated, medicated, melted, merited, meted, migrated, minted, misallocated, misappropriated, miscalculated, misdirected, misinterpreted, misquoted, misreported, misrepresented, misstated, mistreated, mitigated, moderated, modulated, motivated, mounted, multifaceted, mutated, muted, mutilated, narrated, nauseated, navigated, nearsighted, necessitated, negated, neglected, negotiated, netted, nominated, nonregulated, noted, objected, obligated, obliterated, obstructed, officiated, omitted, operated, opinionated, opted, orbited, orchestrated, orientated, oriented, originated, ornamented, outdated, outed, outfitted, outvoted, overacted, overestimated, overexcited, overheated, overpopulated, overrated, overreacted, overregulated, overrepresented, overstated, overweighted, oxygenated, painted, panted, parachuted, parted, participated, patented, patted, pelleted, pelted, penetrated, perfected, perforated, permeated, permitted, perpetrated, perpetuated, persecuted, perverted, petted, picketed, piloted, pinpointed, pirated, pitted, pivoted, planted, plated, plotted, plummeted, pocketed, pointed, pollinated, polluted, pontificated, populated, ported, posited, potted, pouted, precipitated, predated, predicated, predicted, predominated, preempted, prefabricated, premeditated, presented, prevented, printed, profited, prognosticated, prohibited, projected, proliferated, promoted, prompted, promulgated, propagated, prorated, prosecuted, protected, protracted, punctuated, purported, putted, quieted, quilted, quoted, radiated, rafted, ranted, ratcheted, rated, reacted, reactivated, readmitted, reallocated, reappointed, reasserted, rebated, rebutted, recalculated, recanted, reciprocated, recited, recollected, reconnected, reconstituted, reconstructed, recounted, recreated, recruited, redacted, redecorated, redirected, redistributed, redrafted, reelected, reenacted, reevaluated, refitted, reflected, reformulated, refrigerated, refuted, regenerated, regimented, regretted, regulated, rehabilitated, reignited, reincarnated, reinstated, reinstituted, reintegrated, reinterpreted, reinvented, reinvigorated, reinvited, reiterated, rejected, rejuvenated, related, relegated, relented, relocated, remarketed, remitted, renegotiated, renominated, renovated, rented, repainted, repatriated, repeated, repented, replanted, replicated, reported, represented, reprinted, repudiated, reputed, rerouted, resented, resonated, resorted, respected, restarted, restated, restricted, resubmitted, resulted, resurrected, resuscitated, retaliated, retorted, retracted, retreated, retrofitted, reunited, reverberated, reverted, revisited, revolted, righted, rioted, riveted, rocketed, rooted, rotated, rotted, ruminated, rutted, sainted, salivated, salted, saluted, sated, saturated, scapegoated, scented, scouted, scripted, sculpted, seated, secreted, sedated, segmented, segregated, selected, separated, serrated, shafted, shifted, shorted, shortsighted, shouted, shunted, sifted, sighted, silhouetted, simulated, sited, situated, skated, skirted, skyrocketed, slanted, slated, slighted, slotted, snorted, solicited, sophisticated, sorted, speculated, spirited, sported, spotlighted, spotted, spouted, sprinted, sprouted, spurted, squirted, stagnated, stalemated, started, stated, stilted, stimulated, stipulated, stunted, subcontracted, subjected, subjugated, submitted, subordinated, substantiated, substituted, subtracted, subverted, suffocated, suited, superheated, supplanted, supplemented, supported, surmounted, suspected, swatted, sweated, syncopated, syndicated, tabulated, tainted, talented, targeted, taunted, tempted, terminated, throated, thwarted, ticketed, tilted, tinted, titillated, tolerated, tormented, toted, touted, transacted, transected, translated, transmitted, transplanted, transported, treated, trotted, trumpeted, truncated, tufted, unabated, unaccounted, unaccredited, unadulterated, unaffected, unaffiliated, unallocated, unanticipated, unappreciated, unaudited, unbolted, uncharted, uncoated, uncollected, uncommitted, uncompensated, uncompleted, uncomplicated, unconnected, unconsolidated, uncontaminated, uncontradicted, unconverted, uncoordinated, uncorrected, uncorroborated, uncounted, undated, undaunted, undefeated, undercounted, underestimated, underrated, underreported, underrepresented, understated, undetected, undifferentiated, undiluted, undisputed, undistributed, undocumented, undoubted, unedited, uneducated, unelected, unexpected, unexploited, unincorporated, unindicted, uninfected, uninhabited, uninhibited, uninitiated, uninterrupted, uninvited, United, unlimited, unmitigated, unobstructed, unpainted, unprecedented, unprotected, unrated, unreconstructed, unregulated, unrelated, unreported, unrepresented, unrequited, unrestricted, unsaturated, unscripted, unseated, unsolicited, unsophisticated, unstated, unsubstantiated, unsuited, unsupported, unsuspected, untainted, untreated, unwanted, unwarranted, updated, uplifted, uprooted, vacated, vaccinated, vacillated, validated, vatted, vaulted, vaunted, venerated, vented, ventilated, vetted, vindicated, violated, visited, voted, wafted, waited, wanted, warranted, weighted, whetted, whited, wholehearted, wilted, witted.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-e-e-e-i-n-n-r-s-t-t-u"
	-2 letters: indentures, interested, uninterest.
	-3 letters: denturist, entrusted, eternised, indenters, indenture, intenders, internees, intrusted, nutrients, retinenes, teentsier, tenderest, teredines, trendiest, unstinted.
	-4 letters: dentines, dentures, desinent, detentes, detester, detinues, detritus, dinettes, dunnites, ententes, esurient, eternise, indenter, inserted, insetted, insetter, intender, intenser, interest, interned, internee, internes, intrudes, inturned, neediest, nerdiest, nereides, neurines, neutered, nutrient, redenies, reediest, renested.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-e-e-i-n-n-r-s-t-t-u"
	+2 letters: superintendent.
	+3 letters: superintendents, underinvestment.
	+4 letters: underinvestments.
	+5 letters: counterquestioned, countertendencies.
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