concerned
feeling or showing worry or solicitude
How often you will meet it
Rank 1,754 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 10,377 times across 155,168 chapters — 0.005% of every word in the library.
What it means
adjective
- feeling or showing worry or solicitude concerned parents of youthful offenderswas concerned about the future
- involved in or affected by or having a claim to or share in also: interested a memorandum to those concernedan enterprise in which three men are concerned
- culpably involved also: implicated all those concerned in the bribery case have been identifiednamed three officials implicated in the plot
concerned in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Mr. Dodge hurried over to the young man, looking very much concerned.
The High School Boys' Canoe Club · H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock · Chapter 1
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The epics are, in a way, and as far as manners and institutions are concerned, historical documents.
The Odyssey of Homer · 751? BCE-651? BCE Homer · Chapter 1
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Wistful ye peer, wife, concerned for my head, And how best to get me betimes to my bed.
John Marr and Other Poems · Herman Melville · Chapter 1
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Margaret's sympathies went out involuntarily towards her friend, but her listeners, it is to be feared, were concerned entirely for themselves.
The Empire Annual for Girls, 1911 · Various · Chapter 1
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I shall myself lend a hand to France, and that will keep the balance decently level, so far as Germany is concerned.
Punch — Volume 101, November 7, 1891 · Various · Chapter 1