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concerned

adjective US /kənˈsɜːrnd/

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

  1. feeling or showing worry or solicitude concerned parents of youthful offenderswas concerned about the future
  2. 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
  3. culpably involved also: implicated all those concerned in the bribery case have been identifiednamed three officials implicated in the plot

CMU Pronouncing Dictionary · Princeton WordNet 3.1

concerned in real books

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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

  • The epics are, in a way, and as far as manners and institutions are concerned, historical documents.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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

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