Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - nonchalant
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Nonchalant
nonchalant
If you describe someone as nonchalant, you mean that they appear not to worry or care about things and that they seem very calm. Clark’s mother is nonchalant about her role in her son’s latest work... It merely underlines our rather more nonchalant attitude to life. = casual ADJ • nonchalance Affecting nonchalance, I handed her two hundred dollar bills. N-UNCOUNT • nonchalantly ‘Does Will intend to return with us?’ Joanna asked as nonchalantly as she could. = casually ADV: usu ADV with v, also ADV adj
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adjective Etymology: French, from Old French, from present participle of nonchaloir to disregard, from non- + chaloir to concern, from Latin calere to be warm — more at lee Date: circa 1734 having an air of easy unconcern or indifference Synonyms: see cool • ~ly adverb ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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adj. calm and casual, unmoved, unexcited, indifferent. Derivatives nonchalance n. nonchalantly adv. Etymology: F, part. of nonchaloir f. chaloir be concerned ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. беззаботный, беспечный; небрежный nonchalant attitude —- беспечное (небрежное) отношение 2. безразличный, равнодушный; бесстрастный to be nonchalant about smth. —- безразлично относиться к чему-л. ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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adj. 1) бесстрастный; безразличный 2) беззаботный; беспечный; небрежный Syn: see flippant ...Англо-русский словарь
5.
~ adj behaving calmly and seeming not to worry or care about anything (He was leaning on the bar, trying to look nonchalant.) - nonchalance n - nonchalantly adv ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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