English adjective: concerned | |||
1. | concerned feeling or showing worry or solicitude | ||
Samples | 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. | ||
Similar | afraid, afraid, haunted, obsessed, preoccupied, solicitous, taken up | ||
See also | attentive, troubled | ||
Antonyms | unconcerned | ||
2. | concerned involved in or affected by or having a claim to or share in | ||
Samples | 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. | ||
Synonyms | interested | ||
Similar | involved | ||
Antonyms | uninvolved | ||
3. | concerned culpably involved | ||
Samples | 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. | ||
Synonyms | implicated | ||
Similar | involved | ||
Antonyms | uninvolved | ||