insouciant

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Scrabble points
12
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16
Letters
10
Pronunciation
/ɪnˈsuːsɪənt/
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/ɪnˈsuːsɪənt/ · /inˈsusiənt/

Definition of insouciant

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Casually unconcerned; carefree, indifferent, nonchalant.
    “an insouciant gesture”
    “"I am quite serious in saying that your loss must and would be felt; but I verily believe," added she, after a moment's hesitation, "that you are so insouciant yourself, that you cannot believe that every body else is not equally indifferent."”
    “It was there [Cadiz, Spain] that on Sunday I had seen the populace disport itself, and it was full of life then, gay and insouciant.”
    “When we left the Marr house, he [Peter] had boldly said to Felicity, "May I see you home?" And Felicity, much to our amazement, had taken his arm and marched off with him. […] As for me, I was consumed by a secret and burning desire to ask the Story Girl if I might see her home; but I could not screw my courage to the sticking point. How I envied Peter his easy, insouciant manner!”
    “[…] [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."”

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Etymology

From French insouciant, from in- (“not”, prefix) + souciant (“worrying”), 1828.

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