Meaning of NONCHALANT
| Pronunciation: | | `nânshu'lânt
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| | Definition: | | [adj] marked by blithe unconcern; "an ability to interest casual students"; "showed a casual disregard for cold weather"; "an utterly insouciant financial policy"; "an elegantly insouciant manner"; "drove his car with nonchalant abandon"; "was polite in a teasing nonchalant manner" |
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| | Synonyms: | | casual, insouciant, unconcerned |
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| | Definition: | | Nonchalant
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Non`cha`lant"\, a. [F., fr. non not (L. non) +
chaloir to concern one's self for, fr. L. calere to be warm,
to be inflamed with desire, to be troubled. See {Non-}, and
{Caldron}.]
Indifferent; careless; cool.
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| | Related Terms: | | aloof, apathetic, at ease, ataractic, benumbed, blah, blase, calm, careless, casual, cheerful, collected, comatose, composed, cool, degage, desensitized, detached, devil-may-care, disinterested, dispassionate, disregardful, distant, dull, easy, easygoing, effortless, free and easy, glad, happy-go-lucky, heartless, hebetudinous, heedless, hopeless, imperturbable, in a stupor, inattentive, incurious, indifferent, inexcitable, insouciant, lackadaisical, languid, Laodicean, lethargic, light, lighthearted, listless, mindless, negligent, numb, numbed, offhand, Olympian, passive, perfunctory, phlegmatic, pluckless, pococurante, reckless, regardless, relaxed, resigned, slack, sluggish, smooth, soporific, spiritless, spunkless, stoic, stupefied, supine, together, torpid, turned-off, unanxious, uncaring, unconcerned, undiscriminating, undisturbed, unemotional, unenthusiastic, unexcitable, unexcited, unflappable, uninterested, unmindful, unperturbed, unruffled, unsolicitous, untroubled, withdrawn |
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