Concerned
[kən'sɜːnd] or [kən'sɝnd]
Definition
(adj.) feeling or showing worry or solicitude; 'concerned parents of youthful offenders'; 'was concerned about the future'; 'we feel concerned about accomplishing the task at hand'; 'greatly concerned not to disappoint a small child' .
(adj.) involved in or affected by or having a claim to or share in; 'a memorandum to those concerned'; 'an enterprise in which three men are concerned'; 'factors concerned in the rise and fall of epidemics'; 'the interested parties met to discuss the business' .
Editor: Tracy--From WordNet
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Concern
(v. t.) Disturbed; troubled; solicitous; as, to be much concerned for the safety of a friend.
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Examples
- If the question concerned an outfit for Borrioboola, Ma would know all about it and would be quite excited. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- So far as practice is concerned the attempt is an absurdity. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Daylight developing soon followed, and the dark room, as far as the kodaker was concerned, took its proper place as a relic of the dark ages. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- But every subject at some phase of its development should possess, what is for the individual concerned with it, an aesthetic quality. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- With the questions of reorganization thus suggested, we shall be concerned in the concluding chapters. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Thompson_ DEEP SEA MONSTER CAPTURED OFF FLORIDA So far as the scientific world is concerned, this is the only fish of its kind ever captured. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Tom arrived safely, bringing an excellent account of his father's health; but to very little purpose, as far as Mrs. Norris was concerned. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- So far as ability of control, of management, was concerned, it amounted to rule-of-thumb procedure, to routine. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- All things are said to be wisely directed, and for the best interest of all concerned. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Then Tars Tarkas had been with me, but now I was utterly alone in so far as friendly companionship was concerned. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- The primary duty of this priesthood was concerned with the worship of and the sacrifices to the god of the temple. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Fourth of July was safe, as far as the Mediterranean was concerned. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- He suspected me, of course, of being concerned in the disappearance of the Diamond. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- And this extraordinary number is NEARLY equal to the number of days and nights in a year (365 x 2 = 730); and is therefore concerned with human life. Plato. The Republic.
- It was my father who was really concerned. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Where a woman is concerned, it's the story that's easiest to believe. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- No more than two months ago, I was not only my own master, but everybody else's, so far as the porochial workhouse was concerned, and now! Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Yet, as far as she was concerned, could I lament that she was removed in early youth from the certain advent of misery? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I telled her she weren't to meddle again in aught that concerned yo'. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- I'll leave you, Wegg,' said Mr Boffin, laughing, 'as far as I am concerned. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Now we are not concerned here over the question of this particular proposal. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- If you have come here to say disagreeable things about Mrs. Hatch---- It is only with your relation to Mrs. Hatch that I am concerned. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- They said all was quiet so far as the enemy was concerned. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Those senators and representatives are largely irrelevant; they are not concerned with realities. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Far purer, he replied, is the being of that which is concerned with the invariable. Plato. The Republic.
- This morning, as the man was buried and the investigation over--so far as this room is concerned--we thought we could tidy up a bit. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- It was, however, not with those who sat in the settle that Eustacia was concerned. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The people concerned in the finances, the farmers-general, the receivers of the taxes which are not in farm, the court-bankers, etc. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- They are mere accidents so far as we are concerned. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The history so far as conscious statement is concerned takes us back to the conceptions of experience and of reason formulated by Plato and Aristotle. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
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