UNCONCERNED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unconcerned mean? 

• UNCONCERNED (adjective)
  The adjective UNCONCERNED has 3 senses:

1. lacking in interest or care or feeling

2. easy in mind; not worried

3. not occupied or engaged with

  Familiarity information: UNCONCERNED used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNCONCERNED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Lacking in interest or care or feeling

Context example:

blithely unconcerned about his friend's plight

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:

Easy in mind; not worried

Context example:

the prisoner seems entirely unconcerned as to the outcome of the examination

Similar:

untroubled (not beset by troubles or disturbance or distress)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Not occupied or engaged with

Context example:

readers unconcerned with style

Similar:

uninvolved (not involved)

 Context examples 

No; he was talking to Mrs. Cole—he was looking on unconcerned; Jane was asked by somebody else, and he was still talking to Mrs. Cole.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

But the dead man was unconcerned.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I know you will do him such ample justice, that I am growing every moment more unconcerned and indifferent.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Outwardly I trust that I appear as unconcerned as they.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Sir Walter made no objection, and Elizabeth did nothing worse than look cold and unconcerned.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

That is the first question, you know, said Miss Crawford, trying to appear gay and unconcerned, which every woman who plays herself is sure to ask about another.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

For my part, I was fidgeting in my seat in my impatience, but my uncle’s calm, pale face and large blue eyes were as tranquil and demure as those of the most unconcerned spectator.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When I attempted to catch any of these birds, they would boldly turn against me, endeavouring to peck my fingers, which I durst not venture within their reach; and then they would hop back unconcerned, to hunt for worms or snails, as they did before.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

He, her father, a well-meaning, but not a quick-sighted man, could really, I believe, give no information; for he had been generally confined to the house, while the girls were ranging over the town and making what acquaintance they chose; and he tried to convince me, as thoroughly as he was convinced himself, of his daughter's being entirely unconcerned in the business.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

I tried to put on as unconcerned an air as possible, but I had not forgotten the warnings of the lady, even though I disregarded them, and I kept a keen eye upon my two companions.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)