Well ... yes and no. "uninterested" means "not interested" as in "... in your topic", whereas "disinterested" means "impartial", as in "... as to which team wins".
The point I was making is that there are many English word pairs like this that are used erroneously.
>Except that "uninterested" and "disinterested" are at least
similar in meaning. By that I mean they both at least involve some qualification of having an interest. Ingenious and Ingenuous have nothing whatever to do with each other. What a differenct one letter can make.
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>On Charles' 2nd point about hearing 'disingenuous' more often, another in that same vane would be the word 'gruntled'. How often have you heard 'gruntled' when describing a
happy employee.
LOL
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>another in that same
vane Isn't it "
vein"? The above is as in a weather vane, a cockerel that tells you which way the wind's blowing. :-)
- Whoever said that women are the weaker sex never tried to wrest the bedclothes off one in the middle of the night
- Worry is the interest you pay, in advance, for a loan that you may never need to take out.
