Disinterested, Uninterested One of these terms means "objective or unbiased" or "having no stake in something." The other means "not interested in" something. Read the following examples and then answer the preview questions. The two landowners presented their cases to a disinterested judge. Norton was uninterested and fell asleep.
A referee is supposed to be ________________. If you are bored by something, you are ________________.
To have no stake in something is to be disinterested; to find something not very interesting is to be uninterested.
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