concernedadjective
uk/kənˈsɜːnd/us/kənˈsɝːnd/concerned adjective (WORRIED)
B2 worried:
I'm a bit concerned about/for your health.
[ + (that) ] Aren't you concerned (that) she might tell someone?
[ + to infinitive ] He was concerned to hear that two of his trusted workers were leaving.
Concerned parents have complained about the dangerous playground.
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- Many people are very concerned about the destruction of the rainforests.
- Theatre companies are very concerned about cuts in government grants to the arts.
- Police are concerned that mugging is on the increase.
- In the movie, he plays a concerned and sensitive father trying to bring up two teenage children on his own.
- Today, people are much more concerned about their health than they were in the past.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Anxious and worried
- (all) hot and bothered idiom
- -racked
- a bundle of nerves idiom
- aflutter
- agitate
- alarmed
- anxious
- apprehensive
- demented
- dread
- get in a sweat idiom
- grim
- harassed
- haunted
- have a cow idiom
- prey on sth
- rattled
- rest easy idiom
- restive
- restless
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concerned adjective (INVOLVED)
C2 [ after verb ] involved in something or affected by it:
I'd like to thank everyone concerned for making the occasion run so smoothly.
It was quite a shock for all/everyone concerned.
Her job is something concerned with computers.
I'm not very good where money is concerned (= when dealing with money).
as far as sb is concerned
B2 in a particular person's opinion:
As far as I'm concerned, feng shui doesn't work.
as far as sth is concerned
B2 if we are discussing or thinking about a particular thing:
As far as unemployment's concerned, a change of policy on job creation would be a good idea.
be concerned with sth/sb
C1 to be about a particular thing or person:
Today's lesson is concerned with punctuation.
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- He's a bit of a dilettante as far as wine is concerned.
- The rally has been cancelled for the good of all concerned.
- The well-known humanitarian, Joseph Rowntree, was concerned with the welfare of his employees.
- I'm a complete ignoramus where computers are concerned.
- It never pays to take risks where human safety is concerned.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Including and containing
- (right) down to idiom
- assimilate
- build sth in/into sth
- built-in
- cast
- cast your net wide idiom
- catholic
- factor
- factor sth in
- figure
- forget
- inbuilt
- incl
- include
- pack
- package
- rich
- subsume
- throw sth in
- wide-ranging
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