disinterested

Speech parts

1. disinterested - Adjective

2. disinterested - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Not influenced by regard to personal interest or advantage; free from selfish motive; having no relation of interest or feeling; not biased or prejudiced; as, a disinterested decision or judge.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

indifferent unbiased impartial fair neutral detached equitable evenhanded uninterested open-minded blase just open independent phlegmatic

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Antonyms

interested partial biased partisan prejudiced bulldog

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Phrases with the word

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Examples

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves. Oliver Goldsmith

Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion. Albert Jay Nock

I am bound by my own definition of criticism a disinterested endeavor to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world. Matthew Arnold

The disinterested imaginative core of mythology is what develops into literature, science, philosophy. Religion is applied mythology. Northrop Frye

If the dowry doesn't support her, even the executioner is disinterested. Sicilian Proverb

There is no disinterested gift. Spanish Proverb

Close letter words and terms

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