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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Not interested in something; having no interest.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not interested; not having any interest or property in something specified; not personally concerned: as, to be uninterested in business.
  • Not having the mind or the passions engaged: as, to be uninterested in a discourse or narration.
  • Synonyms See disinterested.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Not interested; not having any interest or property in; having nothing at stake.
  • adjective Not having the mind or the passions engaged.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective obsolete Unmotivated by personal interest; unbiased, disinterested.
  • adjective Not interested; indifferent, not concerned.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective not having or showing interest
  • adjective having no care or interest in knowing

Etymologies

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From un- + interested.

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