disinterested

adj

1. Having no interest or stake in the outcome, and no conflicts of interest; free of bias, impartial.

   “[W]e ought to try our compoſures this vvay; by vvhich the ſoul, receiving them more remotely, conveyed to the ear by the voice, and from this returned to her, as it vvere, from abroad, and that onely in a tranſient ſound, ſits novv as the moſt diſintereſted Arbiter, and impartial judge of her ovvn vvorks, that ſhe can be.”

   “[E]very one pretended to Right and Liberty, and to publick Good, and made loud Noiſes of their unbiaſs'd Juſtice, diſintereſted Actings, and vaſt Moderation, and yet vvere all fighting and ſnarling for Dominion over one another.”

   “Sir, you have a right to that kind of respect, and are arguing for yourself. I am for ſupporting the principle, and am diſintereſted in doing it, as I have no ſuch right.”

   “"I don't mind going if a lunch is provided," observed the gentleman with the excrescence on his nose. "But I must be fed, if I make one." Another laugh. "Well, I am the most disinterested among you, after all," said the first speaker, "for I never wear black gloves, and I never eat lunch. But I'll offer to go, if anybody else will.[…]"”

   “This was a case for disinterested benevolence; no pay was expected, but considerable risk incurred; yet we could not decline it, […]”

2. (often, proscribed)Synonym of uninterested (“not interested; not concerned; indifferent”).

   “[I]f there be caſes, vvherein the party is diſ-intereſted, and only or primarily the glory of God is reſpected and advanced, it [suicide] may be lavvfull.”

   “The Mariners, vvhen in ſome furious Tempeſt they are upon point of ſinking, hovv are they amazed at the rage of the vvatry Element? […] hovv diſintereſted are they of all vvorldly matters, ſince they fling their vvealth and riches into the Sea, for vvhich they have run ſuch hazard?”

   “Robin took to wandering again, to intermittent travel from which she came back hours, days later, disinterested.”

   “[Thomas H.] Fields [Jr.] and his club guard against bullies getting in to learn the lethal art, and he says he can spot them. Those spotted are usually taught so slowly that they grow disinterested and quit.”

verb

1. (form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of disinterest