Uninterested vs Mechanical - What's the difference?
uninterested | mechanical | Related terms |
(obsolete) Unmotivated by personal interest; unbiased, disinterested.
Not interested; indifferent, not concerned.
Characteristic of someone who does manual labour for a living; coarse, vulgar.
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Related to mechanics (the branch of physics that deals with forces acting on mass).
Related to mechanics (the design and construction of machines).
Done by machine.
Using mechanics (the design and construction of machines): being a machine.
As if performed by a machine: lifeless or mindless.
(of a person) Acting as if one were a machine: lifeless or mindless.
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, title= (informal) Handy with machines.
Uninterested is a related term of mechanical.
As adjectives the difference between uninterested and mechanical
is that uninterested is (obsolete) unmotivated by personal interest; unbiased, disinterested while mechanical is characteristic of someone who does manual labour for a living; coarse, vulgar.uninterested
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- I was uninterested in the TV program, so I read a book instead.
See also
* disinterestedmechanical
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- all manner of silks were already become so vile and abject, that was any man seene to weare them, he was presently judged to be some countrie fellow, or mechanicall man.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round. But his Roman collar galled him, his cossack stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells.}}
