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Antonyms for concerned

Grammar : Adj
Spell : kuh n-surnd
Phonetic Transcription : kənˈsɜrnd


Definition of concerned

Origin :
  • early 15c., "perceive, distinguish," also "refer to, relate to," from Middle French concerner, from Medieval Latin concernere "concern, touch, belong to," figurative use of Late Latin concernere "to sift, mix, as in a sieve," from Latin com- "with" (see com-) + cernere "to sift," hence "perceive, comprehend" (see crisis). Apparently the sense of the prefix shifted to intensive in Medieval Latin. Meaning "worry" is 17c. Related: Concerned; concerning. Letter opening to whom it may concern attested by 1740.
  • adj worried
  • adj involved with
Example sentences :
  • These losses are doubtless irreparable so far as the stocks in question are concerned.
  • Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
  • Percival made his way toward one of them with a dim notion that he might be concerned.
  • Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
  • No one seemed to have concerned himself with what Bathsheba thought of it all.
  • Extract from : « Viviette » by William J. Locke
  • As to some of the others, I cannot wonder at any thing they do, or attempt to do, where self is concerned.
  • Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 1 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
  • What is known as church-affiliation, the music of the setting, I am not concerned with.
  • Extract from : « The Conquest of Fear » by Basil King
  • All others, so far as she was concerned, existed only on the sufferance of remoteness.
  • Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
  • The thing, I say, was settled, so far as the chief family-worshipper was concerned.
  • Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
  • She herself was in a curious, indeterminate attitude as far as concerned the law.
  • Extract from : « Within the Law » by Marvin Dana
  • The results, as far as I was concerned, were what might have been expected.
  • Extract from : « A Treatise on Parents and Children » by George Bernard Shaw
  • His surprise would have been ludicrous but for the seriousness of the situation to all concerned.
  • Extract from : « Within the Law » by Marvin Dana

Synonyms for concerned

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