Adjective

(en adjective)

Not caring or concerned; uninterested, apathetic.

He was indifferent to the proposal, since it didn't affect him, either way.

Mediocre, usually used negatively in modern usage.

The long distance and the indifferent roads made the journey impossible.

The performance of Blue Jays has been '''indifferent'' this season.

* Sir Walter Scott

The staterooms are in indifferent order.

Having no preference or bias, being impartial.

''I am indifferent between the two plans.

* Addison

indifferent in his choice to sleep or die

Not making a difference; without significance or importance.

Even if one appliance consumes an indifferent amount of energy when left on stand-by overnight, together they can represent 10% of the electricity demand of a household.

* Shakespeare

Dangers are to me indifferent .

* Jeremy Taylor

Everything in the world is indifferent but sin.

* Nathaniel Hawthorne

His slightest and most indifferent acts were odious in the clergyman's sight.

(mechanics) Being in the state of neutral equilibrium.

Adjective

(en adjective)

Not the same; exhibiting a difference.

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* 1971 , William S. Burroughs, , page 6

Enter the American tourist. He thinks of himself as a good guy but when he looks in the mirror to shave this good guy he has to admit that "well, other people are different from me and I don't really like them." This makes him feel guilty toward other people.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author= Ian Sample

, volume=189, issue=6, page=34, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains , passage=Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits.  ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.}}

Various, assorted, diverse.

* 2006 , Delbert S. Elliott et al., Good Kids from Bad Neighborhoods: Successful Development in Social Context , Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9780521863575, page 19:

In any case, poor black respondents living in high-poverty neighborhoods are most likely to view their neighborhood as a single block or block group and to use this definition consistently when asked about different neighborhood characteristics and activities.

Distinct, separate; (used for emphasis after numbers and other determiners of quantity).

* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= Charles T. Ambrose

, title= Alzheimer’s Disease , volume=101, issue=3, page=200, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems—surgical foam, a thermal gel depot, a microcapsule or biodegradable polymer beads.}}

Unlike most others; unusual.