[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

indifferent \indif"ferent\, a. f. indiff'erent, l.
   indifferens. see in- not, and different.
   1913 webster
   1. not making a difference; having no influence or
      preponderating weight; involving no preference, concern,
      or attention; of no account; without significance or
      importance.
      1913 webster

            dangers are to me indifferent.        --shak.
      1913 webster

            everything in the world is indifferent but sin.
                                                  --jer. taylor.
      1913 webster

            his slightest and most indifferent acts . . . were
            odious in the clergyman's sight.      --hawthorne.
      1913 webster

   2. neither particularly good, not very bad; of a middle state
      or quality; passable; mediocre.
      1913 webster

            the staterooms are in indifferent order. --sir w.
                                                  scott.
      1913 webster

   3. not inclined to one side, party, or choice more than to
      another; neutral; impartial.
      1913 webster

            indifferent in his choice to sleep or die.
                                                  --addison.
      1913 webster

   4. feeling no interest, anxiety, or care, respecting
      anything; unconcerned; inattentive; apathetic; heedless;
      as, to be indifferent to the welfare of one's family.
      1913 webster

            it was a law of solon, that any person who, in the
            civil commotions of the republic, remained neuter,
            or an indifferent spectator of the contending
            parties, should be condemned to perpetual
            banishment.                           --addison.
      1913 webster

   5. law free from bias or prejudice; impartial; unbiased;
      disinterested.
      1913 webster

            in choice of committees for ripening business for
            the counsel, it is better to choose indifferent
            persons than to make an indifferency by putting in
            those that are strong on both sides.  --bacon.
      1913 webster

   indifferent tissue anat., the primitive, embryonic,
      undifferentiated tissue, before conversion into
      connective, muscular, nervous, or other definite tissue.
      1913 webster
see also:
in- different indifferent tissue 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

indifferent \indif"ferent\, adv.
   to a moderate degree; passably; tolerably. obs. "news
   indifferent good." --shak.
   1913 webster

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

indifferent
     adj 1: marked by a lack of interest; "an apathetic audience"; "the
            universe is neither hostile nor friendly; it is simply
            indifferent" syn: apathetic
     2: showing no care or concern in attitude or action;
        "indifferent to the sufferings of others"; "indifferent to
        her plea"
     3: usually followed by `to' unwilling or refusing to pay
        heed; "deaf to her warnings" syn: deafp, indifferentp
     4: often followed by `to' lacking importance; not mattering
        one way or the other; "whether you choose to do it or not
        is a matter that is quite immaterial or indifferent";
        "what others think is altogether indifferent to him" syn:
         immaterial
     5: fairly poor to not very good; "has an indifferent singing
        voice"; "has indifferent qualifications for the job"
     6: having only a limited ability to react chemically; not
        active; "inert matter"; "an indifferent chemical in a
        reaction" syn: inert, neutral
     7: marked by no especial liking or dislike or preference for
        one thing over another; "indifferent about which book you
        would give them"; "was indifferent to their acceptance or
        rejection of her invitation"
     8: characterized by a lack of partiality; "a properly
        indifferent jury"; "an unbiased account of her family
        problems" syn: unbiased, unbiassed
     9: neither good nor bad; "an indifferent performance"; "a
        gifted painter but an indifferent actor"; "her work at the
        office is passable"; "a so-so golfer"; "feeling only
        so-so"; "prepared a tolerable dinner"; "a tolerable
        working knowledge of french" syn: passable, so-sop,
         tolerable
     10: neither too great nor too little; "a couple of indifferent
         hills to climb"
see also:
apathetic deafp indifferentp immaterial inert neutral 
unbiased unbiassed passable so-sop tolerable 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

253 moby thesaurus words for "indifferent":
   laodicean, olympian, airy, aloof, apathetic, average, backward,
   balking, balky, benumbed, betwixt and between, blah, blase, bored,
   by-the-way, callous, careless, casual, centrist, chill, cold,
   comatose, commonplace, cool, cursory, dead, degage, desensitized,
   detached, devil-may-care, dilatory, dilute, diluted, disinterested,
   dispassionate, disregardant, disregardful, distant, distracted,
   distrait, dull, easy, easygoing, emotionless, equitable, even,
   evenhanded, everyday, fade, fair, fair to middling, fairish,
   fervorless, fifty-fifty, flat, flavorless, flippant, forgetful,
   free and easy, frigid, glacial, grudging, gruelly, half-and-half,
   halfhearted, heartless, hebetudinous, heedless, hopeless, icy,
   immaterial, impartial, impassive, impersonal, impotent, imprecise,
   in a stupor, inadvertent, inane, inappreciable, inattentive,
   inconsequential, inconsiderate, incurious, independent,
   indevotional, indevout, indifferentist, inferior, inobservant,
   insensible, insensitive, insignificant, insipid, insouciant,
   intermediate, jejune, just, lackadaisical, lackluster, laggard,
   languid, lax, lazy, lenient, lethargic, lightweight, listless,
   loath, loose, lukewarm, mean, mediocre, medium, middling, midway,
   mild, milk-and-water, mindless, minor, moderate, modest,
   namby-pamby, negligent, neuter, neutral, nonaligned, nonchalant,
   noncommitted, nonobservant, nonpartisan, nonreligious, not bad,
   nugatory, numb, numbed, objective, oblivious, of a kind, of a sort,
   of sorts, offhand, on the fence, ordinary, overindulgent,
   overpermissive, pappy, passable, passive, perfunctory, permissive,
   phlegmatic, pluckless, pococurante, poor, pulpy, reckless,
   regardless, relaxed, reluctant, remiss, remote, removed, renitent,
   resigned, respectable, respectless, restive, sapless, savorless,
   slack, slight, slipshod, sloppy, slow, slow to, sluggish, so so,
   so-so, soft, soporific, spiceless, spiritless, spunkless, stale,
   stoic, stolid, stupefied, supine, tactless, tasteless, tedious,
   tepid, thin, third-force, third-world, thoughtless, tolerable,
   torpid, trifling, trivial, unbiased, uncaring, uncommitted,
   uncompassionate, unconcerned, undazzled, undevout, undiplomatic,
   undistinguished, undutiful, unemotional, unenthusiastic, unfeeling,
   unflavored, unheedful, unheeding, unimportant, uninfluenced,
   uninquiring, uninspired, uninterested, uninvolved, unjaundiced,
   unmarking, unmindful, unnoticing, unnoting, unobservant,
   unobserving, unprejudiced, unprepared, unprepossessed, unready,
   unreligious, unremarking, unrestrained, unsavory, unsolicitous,
   unswayed, unsympathetic, untactful, unthinking, unzealous, vapid,
   washy, watered, watered-down, watery, weak, wishy-washy, withdrawn,
   zealless

[5] : Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

indifferent. to have no bias nor partiality. 7 conn. 229. a juror, an 
arbitrator, and a witness, ought to be indifferent, and when they are not 
so, they may be challenged. see 9 conn. 42. 

[6] : THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993)

indifferent, adj.  imperfectly sensible to distinctions among things.

    "you tiresome man" cried indolentio's wife,
    "you've grown indifferent to all in life."
    "indifferent?" he drawled with a slow smile;
    "i would be, dear, but it is not worth while."
                                                     apuleius m. gokul

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