English-Thai Dictionary

disinterested

ADJ ไม่ เกี่ยวข้อง  ไม่มี ส่วนได้ส่วนเสีย  ไม่สน ใจ  dispassionate fair indifferent interested prejudiced biased mai-kaio-kong

 

disinterestedly

ADV อย่างเป็นกลาง 

 

disinterestedness

N ความเป็นกลาง ไม่ มีส่วน ได้เสีย 

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DISINTERESTED

a. 1. 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.
2. Not influenced or dictated by private advantage; as a disinterested decision. [This word is more generally used than uninterested. ]

 

DISINTERESTEDLY

adv. In a disinterested manner.

 

DISINTERESTEDNESS

n.The state or quality of having no personal interest or private advantage in a question or event; freedom from bias or prejudice, on account of private interest; indifference.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

DISINTERESTED

Dis *in "ter *est *ed, a. Etym: [Cf. Disinteressed.]

 

Defn: 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. The happiness of disinterested sacrifices. Channing.

 

Syn. -- Unbiased; impartial; uninterested; indifferent.

 

DISINTERESTEDLY

DISINTERESTEDLY Dis *in "ter *est *ed *ly, adv.

 

Defn: In a disinterested manner; without bias or prejudice.

 

DISINTERESTEDNESS

DISINTERESTEDNESS Dis *in "ter *est *ed *ness, n.

 

Defn: The state or quality of being disinterested; impartiality. That perfect disinterestedness and self-devotion of which man seems to be incapable, but which is sometimes found in woman. Macaulay.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

disinterested

dis in ter est ed |disˈintəˌrestid, -tristid dɪsˈɪnt (ə )rəstəd | ▶adjective 1 not influenced by considerations of personal advantage: a banker is under an obligation to give disinterested advice. 2 having or feeling no interest in something: her father was so disinterested in her progress that he only visited the school once. DERIVATIVES dis in ter est ed ly adverb, dis in ter est ed ness noun ORIGIN early 17th cent.: past participle of the rare verb disinterest ‘rid of interest or concern, ’ from dis- (expressing removal ) + the verb interest . usage: One of the most contended questions of usage is the difference between disinterested and uninterested. According to traditional guidelines, disinterested should never be used to mean ‘not interested ’ (i.e., it is not a synonym for uninterested ) but only to mean ‘impartial, ’ as in the judgments of disinterested outsiders are likely to be more useful. Ironically, the earliest recorded sense of disinterested is for the disputed sense. Today, the ‘incorrect ’ use of disinterested is widespread: around a quarter of citations in the Oxford English Corpus for disinterested are for this sense.

 

Oxford Dictionary

disinterested

dis |in ¦ter |est ¦ed |dɪsˈɪnt (ə )rɪstɪd | ▶adjective 1 not influenced by considerations of personal advantage: a banker is under an obligation to give disinterested advice. 2 having or feeling no interest in something; uninterested: her father was so disinterested in her progress that he only visited the school once. DERIVATIVES disinterestedly adverb, disinterestedness noun ORIGIN early 17th cent.: past participle of the rare verb disinterest ‘rid of interest or concern ’, from dis- (expressing removal ) + interest . usage: Nowhere are the battle lines more deeply drawn in usage questions than over the difference between disinterested and uninterested. According to traditional guidelines, disinterested should never be used to mean ‘not interested ’ (i.e. it is not a synonym for uninterested ) but only to mean ‘impartial ’, as in the judgements of disinterested outsiders are likely to be more useful. Ironically, the earliest recorded sense of disinterested is for the disputed sense. Today, the ‘incorrect ’ use of disinterested is widespread: around a quarter of citations in the Oxford English Corpus for disinterested are for this sense.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

disinterested

disinterested adjective 1 disinterested advice: unbiased, unprejudiced, impartial, neutral, nonpartisan, detached, uninvolved, objective, dispassionate, impersonal, clinical; open-minded, fair, just, equitable, balanced, even-handed, with no ax to grind. 2 he looked at her with disinterested eyes: uninterested, indifferent, incurious, uncurious, unconcerned, unmoved, unresponsive, impassive, passive, detached, unenthusiastic, lukewarm, bored, apathetic; informal couldn't-care-less. WORD NOTE disinterested It is my experience that whenever one is trapped in a bar by a logomaniac, a word-bore, he will sooner or later bring to your notice His View, as though it were worth hearing, of the word disinterested. I simply cannot stand it, he will say, when young people (who are apparently always to blame for linguistic solecisms ) use disinterested to mean not interested, when of course it properly means unbiased, and the word they should be using if they weren't lazy and careless butchers of the tongue, is uninterested. Well, I have two pieces of news for you, Mr. Bore. First of all, disinterested has been used to mean not interested for a much longer time than it has ever been used to denote "nonpartisan "—nearly 50 seventeenth-century years separate the first use of one meaning from the other. And secondly —a sufficient number of these lazy and (in the logomaniacal view ) wrongheaded people, old, young, sensible, and stupid, have lately been employing the word to mean "not interested " that any future editions of a good and nonprescriptive dictionary will be bound to note that this is now a perfectly legitimate way of using the word again, if not the principal one. So forget the argument. Get over it. Though disinterested certainly and uniquely does have the sense of "unbiased, " it happens that in general use these days —and back in the beginning of the seventeenth century also, it seems —it means "uninterested " too. — SW Conversational, opinionated, and idiomatic, these Word Notes are an opportunity to see a working writer's perspective on a particular word or usage.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

disinterested

disinterested adjective 1 she is offering disinterested advice: unbiased, unprejudiced, impartial, neutral, non-partisan, non-discriminatory, detached, uninvolved, objective, dispassionate, impersonal, clinical; open-minded, fair, just, equitable, balanced, even-handed, unselfish, selfless; free from discrimination, with no axe to grind, without fear or favour. ANTONYMS biased. 2 informal he looked at her with disinterested eyes: uninterested, indifferent, incurious, unconcerned, unmoved, unresponsive, impassive, passive, detached, unfeeling, uncaring, unenthusiastic, lukewarm, bored, apathetic, blasé, nonchalant; informal couldn't-care-less. ANTONYMS interested. EASILY CONFUSED WORDS disinterested or uninterested? Disinterested is frequently used as a synonym of uninterested, meaning ‘having or showing no interest in something ’. The traditional meaning of disinterested, however, is ‘not biased; impartial ’, as in bankers are under an obligation to give disinterested advice. Uninterested is the preferred word used to mean ‘having no interest ’, as in he was totally uninterested in politics. These notes clear up confusion between similar-looking pairs.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

disinterested

dis í n ter est ed /-ɪd /形容詞 1 〈人 行為などが 〉利害関係 [私利私欲 ]のない, 公平な .2 ｟非標準 ｠ «…に » 興味 [関心 ]がない «in » (!この意味ではuninterestedが普通 ) .