chalant
Not valid in Scrabble
It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.
- Scrabble points
- 12
- Words With Friends
- 14
- Letters
- 7
/ʃəˈlɑnt/
(US)
Definition of chalant
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adj
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(humorous, nonce-word)Not nonchalant; careful, attentive, or concerned.
“'I draw the line at nonchalant. Sometimes I think you're very chalant.'”
“Nonchalant putts count the same as chalant putts.”
“Lawrence Lipton responded, "The lady is quite right, of course. It's sinful to be nonchalant. We shall endeavor to be more chalant in the future."”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
A back-formation from nonchalant, itself from Old French non- + chalant (“concerning, bothering”). By this process, the original Old French participle was coincidentally re-formed.
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