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UNCONCERNED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Lacking in interest or care or feeling
Example:
blithely unconcerned about his friend's plight
Classified under:
Similar:
blase (nonchalantly unconcerned)
blithe (lacking or showing a lack of due concern)
casual; insouciant; nonchalant (marked by blithe unconcern)
degage; detached; uninvolved (showing lack of emotional involvement)
indifferent (showing no care or concern in attitude or action)
Also:
careless (marked by lack of attention or consideration or forethought or thoroughness; not careful)
untroubled (not beset by troubles or disturbance or distress)
Antonym:
concerned (feeling or showing worry or solicitude)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Not occupied or engaged with
Example:
readers unconcerned with style
Classified under:
Similar:
uninvolved (not involved)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Easy in mind; not worried
Example:
the prisoner seems entirely unconcerned as to the outcome of the examination
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
untroubled (not beset by troubles or disturbance or distress)
Context examples:
Emma made no answer, and tried to look cheerfully unconcerned, but was really feeling uncomfortable and wanting him very much to be gone.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Aye, there she comes, continued Mrs. Bennet, looking as unconcerned as may be, and caring no more for us than if we were at York, provided she can have her own way.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Mary, resenting that she should be supposed not to know her own cousin, began talking very warmly about the family features, and protesting still more positively that it was Mr Elliot, calling again upon Anne to come and look for herself, but Anne did not mean to stir, and tried to be cool and unconcerned.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Miss Crawford could have said that there would be a something to do and to suffer for it, which she could not think lightly of; but she checked herself and let it pass; and tried to look calm and unconcerned when the two gentlemen shortly afterwards joined them.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
