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[syn: casual, insouciant, nonchalant]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Nonchalant \Non`cha`lant"\, a. [F., fr. non not (L. non) +
chaloir to concern one's self for, fr. L. calere to be warm,
to be inflamed with desire, to be troubled. See Non-, and
Caldron.]
Indifferent; careless; cool.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
nonchalant
adj 1: 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" [syn: casual, insouciant, nonchalant]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
92 Moby Thesaurus words for "nonchalant":
Laodicean, Olympian, aloof, apathetic, at ease, ataractic,
benumbed, blah, blase, calm, careless, casual, cheerful, collected,
comatose, composed, cool, degage, desensitized, detached,
devil-may-care, disinterested, dispassionate, disregardful,
distant, dull, easy, easygoing, effortless, free and easy, glad,
happy-go-lucky, heartless, hebetudinous, heedless, hopeless,
imperturbable, in a stupor, inattentive, incurious, indifferent,
inexcitable, insouciant, lackadaisical, languid, lethargic, light,
lighthearted, listless, mindless, negligent, numb, numbed, offhand,
passive, perfunctory, phlegmatic, pluckless, pococurante, reckless,
regardless, relaxed, resigned, slack, sluggish, smooth, soporific,
spiritless, spunkless, stoic, stupefied, supine, together, torpid,
turned-off, unanxious, uncaring, unconcerned, undiscriminating,
undisturbed, unemotional, unenthusiastic, unexcitable, unexcited,
unflappable, uninterested, unmindful, unperturbed, unruffled,
unsolicitous, untroubled, withdrawn