English-French translations for indifferent

• indifférent
  Dans un cas comme dans l’autre, nous ne pouvons rester indifférents. In either case, we cannot remain indifferent.
  Nous n'avons pas le droit de rester indifférents. We must not be indifferent to that!
  Et pourtant, les gens restent indifférents, impassibles. Yet people are indifferent, unmoved.
• étranger
  J'ai moi-même pu ressentir ce que signifiait cette aide venant de personnes de l'étranger qui n'étaient pas indifférentes à notre triste sort. I myself experienced what it meant to be helped in this way by people abroad who were not indifferent to our plight.
• je-m’en-foutiste

Definition of indifferent

• Not caring or concerned; uninterested, apathetic
• Indicating or reflecting a lack of concern or care
• Mediocre (''usually used negatively in modern usage''
• Having no preference or bias, being impartial
• Not making a difference; without significance or importance
• Being in the state of neutral equilibrium
• A person who is indifferent or apathetic
• To some extent, in some degree ; moderately, tolerably, fairly

Examples

• He was indifferent to the proposal, since it didn’t affect him, either way.
• She responded with an indifferent shrug.
• The long distance and the indifferent roads made the journey impossible.
• The performance of Blue Jays has been indifferent this season.
• I am indifferent between the two plans.
• 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.
• The face of the Moon appearing to me to be full of indifferent high mountains...

Related words

• indifference
• indifferentism
• indifferently
• indifferentist
• indifferentiation
• indifference curve
• look at with indifference
• observe with indifference
• political indifference