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disinterested
English
Etymology
Corruption of the adjective disinterest/disinteressed.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d??s?nt(?)??st?d/
Adjective
disinterested (comparative more disinterested, superlative most disinterested)
- Having no stake or interest in the outcome; free of bias, impartial. [from 17th c.]
- 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, ch. 1:
- With his disinterested passion for art, he had a real desire to call the attention of the wise to a talent which was in the highest degree original; [...]
- 2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin 2012, p. 220:
- People are better off abjuring violence, if everyone else agrees to do so, and vesting authority in a disinterested third party.
- 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, ch. 1:
- Uninterested, lacking interest. [from 17th c.]
- 1684, Contempl. State of Man I. x
- How dis-interested are they in all Worldly matters, since they fling their Wealth and Riches into the Sea.
- 1936, Djuna Barnes, Nightwood, Faber & Faber 2007, p. 43:
- Robin took to wandering again, to intermittent travel from which she came back hours, days later, disinterested.
- 1967, Tommy Frazer, The Sun (Baltimore), "A 'Doctor' Of Karate", March 27
- Those spotted are usually taught so slowly that they grow disinterested and quit.
- 1684, Contempl. State of Man I. x
Usage notes
- The correctness of the use of this word with the meaning uninterested is disputed. Some reference works consider it acceptable, while others do not. The OED specifies that this is "Often regarded as a loose use." According to Macmillan Dictionary, "Many people think that this use of the word is not correct".
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receptive
English
Etymology
From Late Middle English receptive, receptyue (“capable of receiving something; acting as a receptacle”), borrowed from Medieval Latin receptivus (“capable of receiving something”), from Latin receptus (“retaken, having been retaken; received, having been received”) + -?vus (suffix added to the perfect passive participial stems of verbs, forming a deverbal adjective meaning ‘doing; related to doing’). Receptus is the perfect passive participle of recipi? (“to regain possession, take back; to recapture; to receive; to accept, undertake”), from re- (prefix meaning ‘back, backwards; again’) + capi? (“to capture, catch, take; to take hold, take possession; to take on; to contain, hold; to occupy; to possess; to receive, take in; to comprehend, understand; to captivate, charm”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kap-, *keh?p- (“to hold; to seize”)).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /???s?pt?v/
- (General American) IPA(key): /???s?pt?v/
- Rhymes: -?pt?v
- Hyphenation: re?cept?ive
Adjective
receptive (comparative more receptive, superlative most receptive)
- Capable of receiving something.
- Antonyms: irreceptive, nonreceptive, unreceptive
- Ready to receive something, especially new concepts or ideas.
- Synonyms: acceptive, susceptive
- Antonym: unreceptive
- (botany) Of a female flower or gynoecium: ready for reproduction; fertile.
- (neurology, psychology) Of, affecting, or pertaining to the understanding of language rather than its expression.
- Antonym: expressive
- (zoology) Of a female animal (especially a mammal): prepared to mate; in heat, in oestrus.
- Synonym: oestrual
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