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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective concerned has 3 senses
- concerned(a = adj.all) Array - feeling or showing worry or solicitude; "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" Antonym: unconcerned
- concerned(s = adj.all) interested - involved in or affected by or having a claim to or share in; "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"
- concerned(s = adj.all) implicated - culpably involved; "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"
CIDE DICTIONARY
Disturbed; troubled; solicitous; as, to be much concerned for the safety of a friend. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
concerned, adj.
1 involved, interested (the people concerned; concerned with proving his innocence).
2 (often foll. by that, about, at, for, or to + infin.) troubled, anxious (concerned about him; concerned to hear that).
1 involved, interested (the people concerned; concerned with proving his innocence).
2 (often foll. by that, about, at, for, or to + infin.) troubled, anxious (concerned about him; concerned to hear that).
Idiom
as (or so) far as I am concerned as regards my interests. be concerned (often foll. by in) take part. I am not concerned it is not my business.
Derivative
concernedly adv. concernedness n.
THESAURUS
concerned
a party to, active, affected, agitated, all-overish, anxious, anxioused up, apprehensive, attracted, bothered, caring, cathectic, curious, disquieted, distressed, disturbed, enthusiastic, excited, fascinated, fearful, foreboding, implicated, in a pucker, in a stew, included, interested, involved, keen on, misgiving, nervous, on tenterhooks, overanxious, overapprehensive, passionate, perturbed, piqued, responsible, solicitous, strained, suspenseful, tantalized, tense, tickled, titillated, troubled, turned-on, uneasy, upset, vexed, worried, zealousROGET THESAURUS
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Pain
N mental suffering, pain, dolor, suffering, sufferance, ache, smart, passion, displeasure, dissatisfaction, discomfort, discomposure, disquiet, malaise, inquietude, uneasiness, vexation of spirit, taking, discontent, dejection, weariness, anhedonia, annoyance, irritation, worry, infliction, visitation, plague, bore, bother, botheration, stew, vexation, mortification, chagrin, esclandre, mauvais quart d'heur, care, anxiety, solicitude, trouble, trial, ordeal, fiery ordeal, shock, blow, cark, dole, fret, burden, load, concern, grief, sorrow, distress, affliction, woe, bitterness, heartache, carking cares, heavy heart, aching heart, bleeding heart, broken heart, heavy affliction, gnawing grief, unhappiness, infelicity, misery, tribulation, wretchedness, desolation, despair, extremity, prostration, depth of misery, nightmare, ephialtes, incubus, pang, anguish, agony, torture, torment, purgatory, hell upon earth, iron age, reign of terror, slough of despond, peck of troubles, ills that flesh is heir to, miseries of human life, unkindest cut of all, sufferer, victim, prey, martyr, object of compassion, wretch, shorn lamb, in pain, in a state of pain, full of pain, suffering, pained, afflicted, worried, displeased, aching, griped, sore, on the rack, in limbo, between hawk and buzzard, uncomfortable, uneasy, ill at ease, in a taking, in a way, disturbed, discontented, out of humor, weary, heavy laden, stricken, crushed, a prey to, victimized, ill-used, unfortunate, to be pitied, doomed, devoted, accursed, undone, lost, stranded, fey, unhappy, infelicitous, poor, wretched, miserable, woe-begone, cheerless, careworn, concerned, sorry, sorrowing, sorrowful, cut up, chagrined, horrified, horror-stricken, in grief, plunged in grief, a prey to grief, in tears, steeped to the lips in misery, heart-stricken, heart-broken, heart-scalded, broken-hearted, in despair, the iron entered into our soul, haeret lateri lethalis arundo, one's heart bleeding, down, thou climbing sorrow, mirth cannot move a soul in agony, nessun maggior dolere che ricordarsi del tempo fel, sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier th, the Niobe of Nations.
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