Adjacent Words

insouciant definitions

	Tweet

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: 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" [syn: casual, insouciant, nonchalant]

Merriam Webster's

adjective see insouciance

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. carefree; unconcerned. Derivatives: insouciance n. insouciantly adv. Etymology: F (as IN-(1), souciant pres. part. of soucier care)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Insouciant In`sou`ciant", a. [F.] Careless; heedless; indifferent; unconcerned. --J. S. Mill.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

An insouciant action or quality shows someone's lack of concern about something which they might be expected to take more seriously. (FORMAL) Programme-makers seem irresponsibly insouciant about churning out violence. = nonchalant ADJ