Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for DIS-IN'TER-EST-ED
DIS-IN'TER-ESTDIS-IN'TER-EST-ED-LY
DIS-IN'TER-EST-ED, a.
- Uninterested; indifferent; free from self-interest; having no personal interest or private advantage in a question or affair. It is important that a judge should be perfectly disinterested.
- Not influenced or dictated by private advantage; as, a disinterested decision. [This word is more generally used than uninterested.]
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