concerned

/kənˈsʌrnd/

/kənˈsʌnd/

If you're concerned, you're feeling worried. When your clumsy friend announces his plans to become a stunt double, you should be concerned for his safety, and if you're not, you're a lousy friend.

The adjective concerned has roots in Latin terms for seeing clearly, as well as for being in relation to something. If you feel concerned, say for your neighbor who just bet his savings on a horse race, that's because you truly care for his well-being and you see that he's doing something stupid. Sometimes we use concerned to show the limits of our investment. As far as you are concerned, Madame X can jump off a cliff! You don't care!

Definitions of concerned

1. adjective

   feeling or showing worry or solicitude
   “concerned parents of youthful offenders”

   “was concerned about the future”

   “we feel concerned about accomplishing the task at hand”

   “greatly concerned not to disappoint a small child”

   synonyms:

   attentive

   (often followed by `to') giving care or attention

   afraid

   filled with regret or concern; used often to soften an unpleasant statement

   afraid

   feeling worry or concern or insecurity

   haunted, obsessed, preoccupied, taken up

   having or showing excessive or compulsive concern with something

   solicitous

   full of anxiety and concern

   troubled

   characterized by or indicative of distress or affliction or danger or need

   antonyms:

   unconcerned

   lacking in interest or care or feeling

   careless

   marked by lack of attention or consideration or forethought or thoroughness; not careful

   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

   untroubled

   not beset by troubles or disturbance or distress
2. adjective

   involved in or affected by or having a claim to or share in
   “a memorandum to those concerned”

   “an enterprise in which three men are concerned”

   “factors concerned in the rise and fall of epidemics”

   synonyms: interested

   involved

   connected by participation or association or use
3. adjective

   culpably involved
   “all those concerned in the bribery case have been identified”

   synonyms: complicit, implicated

   involved

   connected by participation or association or use