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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 Etymology: French, from Old French, from present participle of nonchaloir to disregard, from non- + chaloir to concern, from Latin cal?re to be warm — more at lee Date: circa 1734 having an air of easy unconcern or indifference Synonyms: see cool • nonchalantly adverb

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. calm and casual, unmoved, unexcited, indifferent. Derivatives: nonchalance n. nonchalantly adv. Etymology: F, part. of nonchaloir f. chaloir be concerned

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Nonchalant 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you describe someone as nonchalant, you mean that they appear not to worry or care about things and that they seem very calm. Clark's mother is nonchalant about her role in her son's latest work... It merely underlines our rather more nonchalant attitude to life. = casual ADJ • nonchalance Affecting nonchalance, I handed her two hundred dollar bills. N-UNCOUNT • nonchalantly 'Does Will intend to return with us?' Joanna asked as nonchalantly as she could. = casually ADV: usu ADV with v, also ADV adj

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. [Fr.] Unconcerned, indifferent, careless, cool, apathetic.

Moby Thesaurus

Laodicean, Olympian, 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, lethargic, light, lighthearted, listless, mindless, negligent, numb, numbed, offhand, 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