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say it: kuhn-SURND
concerned is an adjective meaning "feeling or showing worry or solicitude". It carries 3 recorded senses.
feeling or showing worry or solicitude
“concerned parents of youthful offenders”
“was concerned about the future”
“we feel concerned about accomplishing the task at hand”
“greatly concerned not to disappoint a small child”
involved in or affected by or having a claim to or share in
“a memorandum to those concerned”
“an enterprise in which three men are concerned”
“factors concerned in the rise and fall of epidemics”
“the interested parties met to discuss the business”
culpably involved
“all those concerned in the bribery case have been identified”
“named three officials implicated in the plot”
“an innocent person implicated by circumstances in a crime”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for concerned come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.