(a.) Not mal/ing a difference; having no influence or preponderating weight; involving no preference, concern, or attention; of no account; without significance or importance.
(a.) Neither particularly good, not very bad; of a middle state or quality; passable; mediocre.
(a.) Not inclined to one side, party, or choice more than to another; neutral; impartial.
(a.) Feeling no interest, anxiety, or care, respecting anything; unconcerned; inattentive; apathetic; heedless; as, to be indifferent to the welfare of one's family.
(a.) Free from bias or prejudice; impartial; unbiased; disinterested.
(adv.) To a moderate degree; passably; tolerably.
Example Sentences:
(1) I did not - do not - quite understand how some are able to contemplate his anti-semitism with indifference.
(2) Strains showing occasional antagonism at a particular proportion of concentrations of the test combination, were found to only be indifferent when the mean index of the fractional inhibition concentration of all checkerboard combinations was calculated.
(3) Whether out of fear, indifference or a sense of impotence, the general population has learned to turn away, like commuters speeding by on the freeways to the suburbs, unseeingly passing over the squalor.
(4) "The disrespect embodied in these apparent mass violations of the law is part of a larger pattern of seeming indifference to the constitution that is deeply troubling to millions of Americans in both political parties," he said.
(5) The report paints a picture characterised too often by international indifference, even over the collection and distribution of the raw data on migrant deaths.
(6) Never had I heard anything about what I saw documented so unsparingly in Evan’s photographs: families sleeping in the streets, their clothes in shreds, straw hats torn and unprotecting of the sun, guajiros looking for work on the doorsteps of Havana’s indifferent mansions.
(7) We know this system doesn't work – and yet we prop it up with ignorance and indifference.
(8) The Tip Deflection Test involved securing the lead at 45 degrees at the indifferent electrode and applying a force to deflect the tip 5 mm.
(9) A sine wave current stimulus, applied between electrodes placed about one ear and an indifferent electrode, produced a cyclical sway predominantly in the coronal plane.
(10) I watched about 90 shows in three weeks, with an unfavourable ratio of good to bad to indifferent.
(11) The ghastliness of this American shock jock, who, though still obscure to most Britons, is said to be the third most popular radio host in the States, perhaps explains why news of his continued exclusion from the UK was greeted last week with utter indifference.
(12) In 20 patients a water-soluble contrast medium (Urovison for infusion 30%, 500 ml) was injected after addition of indifferent infusion solutions, or the contrast medium was mixed with the ascitic fluid remaining in the cavity after abdominal puncture of patients with ascites.
(13) When the initial-link reinforcement rate was lower than the terminal-link rate, preference converged toward indifference.
(14) In this study was tested the prediction that approach-oriented wrestlers should perform better than indifferent- and avoidance-oriented ones.
(15) On a macro level, a party that is already thoroughly militarized and corporatized – and largely indifferent to Main Street whenever it poses a conflict with Wall Street – offers little alternative to the other party that already celebrates that.
(16) Even if Honda manage to improve their woeful power unit and McLaren make improvements to their indifferent car, it is difficult to see the team running better than mid-table next term.
(17) He says it is not for him to say what Russia should do but “it can not be indifferent to the destiny of such a big partner as Ukraine”.
(18) What to say to the children who went to a pop concert and left to find their waiting parents blown apart by the hate and callous indifference in the foyer?
(19) The best results were observed in hebephrenic forms and depressive syndroms during the illness; in these indications, carpipramine exerts a clear psychomotor stimulating activity which is useful in decreasing indifference, apathy and ideomotor slowness.
(20) In general, the combination of quinolone antibiotics with other drugs tested against staphylococci, enterococci, and anaerobic species has shown indifference.
Irrespective
Definition:
(a.) Without regard for conditions, circumstances, or consequences; unbiased; independent; impartial; as, an irrespective judgment.
(a.) Disrespectful.
Example Sentences:
(1) Irrespective of the type of arthropathy, synovial fluid dialysable hydroxyproline levels correlate with urinary hydroxyproline excretion.
(2) It was found that preterm infants (delivered before 38 weeks of gestation) had nine times the early neonatal mortality of term infants, irrespective of growth retardation patterns.
(3) All F. tularensis strains were found to have enzymatic activity irrespective of their subspecies, but neuraminidase activity was higher in the strains belonging to the American subspecies.
(4) Histochemical and immunocytochemical staining of the outgrowths with reagents that depict epithelial, myoepithelial, and lactating alveolar cells (peanut lectin alone, monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies to rat caseins) indicate similar cell compositions and arrangements for all outgrowths irrespective of their source; these are also similar to the mammary glands of the perphenazine-stimulated or lactating hosts.
(5) Among 71 evaluable patients 25% showed objective tumor response (three complete, 15 partial), at all three dose levels and irrespective of the major tumor site.
(6) Prostitute visit is a main risk factor, irrespective of whether the husband had a history of sexually transmitted diseases or not.
(7) Alternatively, the increase in endocytotic transport itself could be responsible for accelerated recovery, irrespective of the stimulating agent.
(8) It appears that irrespective of the elucidation of the nature of the putative aetiological factor (presumed to be viral) in MS, the arrest and reversal of T cell-related events within the CNS in this devastating condition represent feasible goals and should remain a major target for some time to come.
(9) In acute experiments on pregnant sows under sodium pentobarbitone anaesthesia, acid base balance, oxygenation and plasma metabolite concentrations were well maintained in the dam and all fetuses which remained undisturbed in utero, irrespective of the duration of the experiment.
(10) Irrespective of method, the suicide attempt was predominantly a psychotic act of young single people with chronic, severe disorders and considerable past parasuicide, in a setting of escalating self-harm.
(11) On the other hand, the total number of missing hair cells, irrespective of location, was a good, general indicator of the hearing capacity in a given ear.
(12) The coefficient of repeatability statistic appears to facilitate the assessment of pattern electroretinograms and permits the comparison of the repeatability of both implicit time and amplitude parameters irrespective of absolute values.
(13) Approximately twice as many mammary cancers were observed in the cervical-thoracic as in the abdominal-inguinal mammary gland chains irrespective of carcinogen dose, while the frequency of tumor occurrence in the left versus right chains was similar.
(14) Among breast cancer women, PRL increase was irrespective of the type of surgery, the histology of the tumor and the menopausal status.
(15) It was found that, irrespective of the dose applied, the ionizing radiation caused a significant depletion of dopamine in the striatum.
(16) In the group of malignant schizophrenia, irrespective of the stage of the disease and in the group of circular forms there was a definite drop in the activity of cytochromoxidase, succinatedehydrogenase and MAO, while as the activity of the ATP-ase and peroxidase was increased.
(17) Irrespective of the exact incidence, 2 defined risk factors have been identified: preexisting renal disease and diabetes mellitus.
(18) Load capacity, defined as the amount of protein per ml gel suspension, was determined to be 5-10 mg per ml for total protein, irrespective of the pH range of the carrier ampholytes.
(19) Under conditions of disturbed blood supply, irrespective of the method of anastomosing, the trophicity of tissues in the zone of suture is sharply disturbed.
(20) The colour changes due to storage appear to take place irrespective of the metals.