unconcerned

adjectiveB2+Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #11,921 of 15,258neutral

Unconcerned means not worried by something that might worry other people. Calm, and possibly too calm.

It takes about or by. The word can be a compliment about steadiness or a criticism about indifference, and the same behaviour reads either way depending on how serious the situation is, which is why appearing unconcerned about a real danger is not admired. It also means uninvolved, so somebody unconcerned in an affair has no part in it, and that use is formal and mostly legal.

Definitions of unconcerned

1adjectiveunconcernedNot worried or anxious about something.B2+
“He seemed entirely unconcerned about the deadline.”

Where it comes from

From un + concerned or unconcern + ed.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in A Man Called Ove

First appears in chapter 11 of A Man Called Ove.

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unconcerned in the wild

Jordan was relatively unconcerned with the nature of the content he was indexing.
Phynd
The Macedonian king, Ptolemy Keraunos, was unconcerned by the approaching army, and declined an offer of 20,000 soldiers from the Dardanians.
Bolgios
Other officers remained unconcerned with it, or even wanted to use it or similar websites as tools for communication with the public.
RateMyCop.com
Political parties and unions were generally unconcerned with the needs of working mothers and providing them with state-supported childcare services.
Childcare in Francoist Spain and the democratic transition

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

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