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insouciant

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in·sou·ci·ant  (n-ss-nt, s-syä)
adj.
Marked by blithe unconcern; nonchalant.

[French : in-, not (from Old French; see in-1) + souciant, present participle of soucier, to trouble (from Old French, from Vulgar Latin *sollictre, alteration of Latin sollicitre, to vex; see solicit).]

in·souci·ant·ly adv.

insouciant [ɪnˈsuːsɪənt]
adj
carefree or unconcerned; light-hearted
[from French, from in-1 + souciant worrying, from soucier to trouble, from Latin sollicitāre; compare solicitous]
insouciance  n
insouciantly  adv
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Adj.1.insouciant - marked by blithe unconcern; "an ability to interest casual students"; "showed a casual disregard for cold weather"; "an utterly insouciant financial policy"; "an elegantly insouciant manner"; "drove his car with nonchalant abandon"; "was polite in a teasing nonchalant manner"
unconcerned - lacking in interest or care or feeling; "the average American...is unconcerned that his or her plight is the result of a complex of personal and economic and governmental actions...beyond the normal citizen's comprehension and control"; "blithely unconcerned about his friend's plight"

insouciant
adjective nonchalant, casual, carefree, gay, sunny, buoyant, airy, breezy, unconcerned, jaunty, untroubled, happy-go-lucky, free and easy, unworried, light-hearted He worked with insouciant disregard for convention.
Translations
insouciant [ɪnˈsuːsɪənt] ADJdespreocupado
insouciant [ɪnˈsuːsiənt] (formal) adj (= nonchalant) → insouciant(e)
insouciant
adj (liter: = careless) → unbekümmert; to be insouciant about somethingsich nicht um etw kümmern
insouciant [ɪnˈsuːsɪənt] adj (liter) → noncurante
insouciant [ɪnˈsuːsɪənt] adj (liter) → noncurante


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The ladies of Watteau, gay and insouciant, seemed to wander with their cavaliers among the great trees, whispering to one another careless, charming things, and yet somehow oppressed by a nameless fear.
 
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