Apathetic definition

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Feeling or showing a lack of interest or concern; indifferent.
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Not interested; indifferent; listless.
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Feeling or showing little or no emotion; unresponsive.
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Feeling little or no emotion; unmoved.
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The definition of apathetic is someone who is not interested or doesn’t show any feeling or emotion.

A citizen who does not vote in a public election is an example of an apathetic citizen.

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Void of feeling; not susceptible of deep emotion; passionless; indifferent.
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Of, or pertaining to apatheism.
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Origin of apathetic

  • From apathy on the model of pathetic

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • apathy +‎ -etic

    From Wiktionary

Apathetic Sentence Examples

  • They are a light-hearted, apathetic people, little given to quarrelling or to the commission of violent crime.

  • He had shown himself so incapable and apathetic that his followers were sick of fighting for such a despicable master.

  • He was incorrigibly frivolous, idle and apathetic; his father had given.

  • I just didn't know why I was so apathetic.

  • The king, though affectionate, was cold and apathetic, and it was not till seven years after her marriage that there was any possibility of her bearing him an heir.

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