adj
Meaning 1
Showing concern.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- There was a concerned expression on her face as I told her the news.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: solicitous
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
concerned
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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General-American: /kənˈsɝnd/
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Received-Pronunciation: /kənˈsɜːnd/
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adj
Meaning 2
Involved or responsible.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- The people concerned have been punished.
- A reviews section which is concerned with films, albums, etc.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 3
simple past and past participle of concern
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, participle, past
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective
Meaning 4
feeling or showing worry or solicitude
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- 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
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: unconcerned
adjective satellite
Meaning 5
involved in or affected by or having a claim to or share in
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a memorandum to those concerned
- an enterprise in which three men are concerned
- factors concerned in the rise and fall of epidemics
- the interested parties met to discuss the business
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: interested
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 6
culpably involved
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- all those concerned in the bribery case have been identified
- named three officials implicated in the plot
- an innocent person implicated by circumstances in a crime
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: implicated
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
49 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Albanian: merakosur — showing concern
- Arabic: مُهْتَمّ (muhtamm) — showing concern
- Bulgarian: загрижен (zagrižen) — showing concern
- Chinese Mandarin: 關切 /关切 (guānqiè) — showing concern
- Chinese Mandarin: 掛念 /挂念 (guànniàn) — showing concern
- Dutch: bezorgd — showing concern
- Finnish: huolestunut — showing concern
- Finnish: levoton — showing concern
- French: inquiet — showing concern
- French: préoccupé — showing concern
- Galician: preocupado — showing concern
- German: besorgt — showing concern
- Greek: ανήσυχος (anísychos) — showing concern
- Hebrew: חוֹשֵׁשׁ (ẖoshésh) — showing concern
- Hindi: चिंतित (cintit) — showing concern
- Hungarian: aggódik — showing concern
- Hungarian: nyugtalankodik — showing concern
- Hungarian: nyugtalan — showing concern
- Hungarian: aggódó — showing concern
- Italian: preoccupato — showing concern
- Khmer: ខ្វល់ (kvɑl) — showing concern
- Plautdietsch: besorcht — showing concern
- Plautdietsch: beduat — showing concern
- Portuguese: preocupado — showing concern
- Romanian: preocupat — showing concern
- Romanian: îngrijorat — showing concern
- Russian: озабоченный (ozabočennyj) — showing concern
- Russian: обеспокоенный (obespokojennyj) — showing concern
- Spanish: preocupado — showing concern
- Ottoman Turkish: مشغول (meşgul) — showing concern
- Arabic: مُعْنِيّ (muʕniyy) — involved or responsible
- French: impliqué — involved or responsible
- German: beteiligt — involved or responsible
- Hungarian: érdekelt — involved or responsible
- Hungarian: érintett — involved or responsible
- Hungarian: közreműködő — involved or responsible
- Hungarian: részt vevő — involved or responsible
- Hungarian: illetékes — involved or responsible
- Hungarian: vonatkozó — involved or responsible
- Hungarian: illető — involved or responsible
- Hungarian: érintő — involved or responsible
- Hungarian: hozzá/rá tartozó — involved or responsible
- Italian: interessato — involved or responsible
- Italian: in oggetto — involved or responsible
- Russian: прича́стный (pričástnyj) — involved or responsible
- Serbo-Croatian: у̀мешан — involved or responsible
- Serbo-Croatian: у̀мјешан — involved or responsible
- Serbo-Croatian: ùmešan — involved or responsible
- Serbo-Croatian: ùmješan — involved or responsible
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