Unconcerned
[ʌnkən'sɜːnd] or [,ʌnkən'sɝnd]
Definition
(adj.) lacking in interest or care or feeling; 'the average American...is unconcerned that his or her plight is the result of a complex of personal and economic and governmental actions...beyond the normal citizen's comprehension and control'; 'blithely unconcerned about his friend's plight' .
(adj.) not occupied or engaged with; 'readers unconcerned with style' .
(adj.) easy in mind; not worried; 'the prisoner seems entirely unconcerned as to the outcome of the examination' .
Edited by Laurence--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Not concerned; not anxious or solicitous; easy in mind; carelessly secure; indifferent; as, to be unconcerned at what has happened; to be unconcerned about the future.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Indifferent, careless, cool, unsolicitous, unmoved, apathetic, dead, NONCHALANT, not anxious, not interested.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Careless, Indifferent, apathetic,[See COMMON]
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Examples
- The hearty old landlord was trying to look very cheerful and unconcerned, but failing signally in the attempt. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- She was as unconcerned at that contingency as a goddess at a lack of linen. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Emma made no answer, and tried to look cheerfully unconcerned, but was really feeling uncomfortable and wanting him very much to be gone. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Fabre, fighting for a particular female who sits by, an apparently unconcerned beholder of the struggle, and then retires with the conqueror. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- No; he was talking to Mrs. Colehe was looking on unconcerned; Jane was asked by somebody else, and he was still talking to Mrs. Cole. Jane Austen. Emma.
- It cannot be the idle view of an unconcerned spectator. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- We looked indifferent--unconcerned. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I know you will do him such ample justice, that I am growing every moment more unconcerned and indifferent. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- He made no complaint, however, and was strangely unconcerned about himself, if I may say so strange a thing. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- She could not have appeared more perfectly unconcerned if I had told her of the death of the goat in the enclosure outside. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
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