Choose the sentence that uses indifferent to correctly.

Choose the sentence that uses indifferent to correctly.

• A. She is indifferent to the outcome of the game.
• B. She is indifferent toward the outcome of the game.
• C. She is indifferent at the outcome of the game.
• D. She is indifferent for the outcome of the game.

Answer: (A)

Indifferent to is the natural, standard collocation. When you say someone is indifferent to something, you mean they don’t care about or aren’t affected by it. The sentence using this pairing—“She is indifferent to the outcome of the game.”—expresses that lack of concern clearly and idiomatically. The other prepositions don’t fit this meaning. “Indifferent toward” appears in some varieties but is less standard in formal American usage and sounds less natural here. “Indifferent at” and “indifferent for” are not idiomatic with this sense of indifference.

Indifferent to is the natural, standard collocation. When you say someone is indifferent to something, you mean they don’t care about or aren’t affected by it. The sentence using this pairing—“She is indifferent to the outcome of the game.”—expresses that lack of concern clearly and idiomatically.

The other prepositions don’t fit this meaning. “Indifferent toward” appears in some varieties but is less standard in formal American usage and sounds less natural here. “Indifferent at” and “indifferent for” are not idiomatic with this sense of indifference.