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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
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
2. showing a lack of interest or concern; indifferent. an apathetic audience
Syn: indifferent [WordNet 1.5]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
apathetic
adjective
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}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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
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