insouciant
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From French insouciant, from in- (“not”) + souciant (“worrying”)
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Adjective[edit]
insouciant (comparative more insouciant, superlative most insouciant)
- Carefree, nonchalant, indifferent; casually unconcerned.
- 1903, W. Somerset Maugham, "Cadiz" in The Land of The Blessed Virgin:
- It was there that on Sunday I had seen the populace disport itself, and it was full of life then, gay and insouciant.
- 1913, Lucy Maud Montgomery, The Golden Road, ch. 3:
- How I envied Peter his easy, insouciant manner!
- 2004 April 26, Richard Schickel, "Sean Penn: Necessary Actor," Time:
- Jack Nicholson . . . turned to an assistant, bummed a cigarette, flashed one of his wolfish, insouciant grins and said, "We all have our little secrets, Seany."
- 1903, W. Somerset Maugham, "Cadiz" in The Land of The Blessed Virgin:
Translations[edit]
carefree
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French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
insouciant (feminine singular insouciante, masculine plural insouciants, feminine plural insouciantes)
Further reading[edit]
- “insouciant” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).