unconcerningadj.
a. Not concerning or affecting one; unconnected with one's affairs or interests; having no importance or relevance.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective]
toyous1581
unpregnant1604
unconcerning1612
immomenta1616
importlessa1616
nothinga1616
unmomentary1624
unimportingc1625
unessential1634
matterlessa1650
inconcerning1650
nugacious1652
of good, bad, etc., consequence1654
immomentary1662
immomentous1726
unmomentous1735
unimportant1750
unconsequential1769
inconsequential1782
nothingless1822
small fry1828
uninterest1890
non-entitious1952
nothingburger1965
1612 J. Donne Second Anniuersarie 27 in First Anniuersarie To know but Catechismes and Alphabets Of vnconcerning things, matters of fact.
1651 T. Fuller Abel Redevivus 26 They vexed him with triviall objections about unconcerning matters.
1749 W. Melmoth Lett. by Sir Thomas Fitzosborne II. 321 With other topicks of the same unconcerning kind.
a1779 W. Warburton Unpubl. Papers (1841) 568 It will teach him to distinguish real from imaginary knowledge,..useful from unconcerning.
1821 S. T. Coleridge Lett., Conversat., & Recoll. II. 22 Lonely in an unconcerning crowd of human figures.
1833 C. Lamb Barrenness Imaginative Faculty in Last Ess. Elia 167 As if unconscious of Bacchus, or but idly casting her eyes as upon some unconcerning pageant,..Ariadne is still pacing the..shore.
ΚΠ
1647 L. Haward Charges Crown Revenue Ded. Having medled with the publishing of such a Subject so unconcerning my own quality.
1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 87 They will satisfie the Patients thirst with cooling Juleps, be they never so improper for the Malignity Nature hath to struggle with, or unconcerning her assistance to resist.
1667 R. Allestree Causes Decay Christian Piety v. 70 Those things that are either impossible in their nature, or unconcerning to us cannot beget it.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
<
adj.1612