- feeling little or no emotion; unmoved
- not interested; indifferent; listless
Origin of apathetic
from apathy, modeled on pathetic
adjective
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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apathetic
also ap·a·thet·i·cal
adjective
- Feeling or showing a lack of interest or concern; indifferent.
- Feeling or showing little or no emotion; unresponsive.
Origin of apathetic
From apathy on the model of patheticRelated Forms:
- ap′a·thet′i·cal·ly
adverb
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Adjective
(comparative more apathetic, superlative most apathetic)
- Void of feeling; not susceptible of deep emotion; passionless; indifferent.
- Of, or pertaining to apatheism.
Origin
apathy + -etic
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Sentence Examples
- They are a light-hearted, apathetic people, little given to quarrelling or to the commission of violent crime.
- He was incorrigibly frivolous, idle and apathetic; his father had given.
- He had shown himself so incapable and apathetic that his followers were sick of fighting for such a despicable master.
- He was not content with laying the blame at the door of the effete War Office, but deplored the apathetic way in which the Tsar passed the time at headquarters, without any clear political plan, holding on supinely to formalism and routine, yielding to the spasmodic interference of the Empress.
- 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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Words near apathetic in the dictionary
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