concernedadj.n.

Brit.

/kənˈsəːnd/, U.S.

/kənˈsərnd/

Forms: see concern v. and -ed suffix¹; also U.S. regional 1800s consarndest (superlative).

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: concern v., -ed suffix¹.

Etymology: < concern v. + -ed suffix¹. In sense A. 1b after concern n. 4b. In sense A. 3 perhaps partly a euphemistic substitution for darned adj.²

A. adj.

a. Characterized by or expressive of concern; feeling or showing concern; troubled, anxious, worried. Also: having a concern in something; affected, involved.Cf. notes at concern v. 4, concern v. 5.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > care, protection, or charge > [adjective] > having kindly interest

interessed1598

concerned1648

interested1665

the mind > emotion > suffering > state of being upset or perturbed > worry > anxiety > [adjective] > concerned

concerned1648

1648 Earl of Monmouth tr. G. Gualdo Priorato Hist. Late Warres i. 1 Divers Proceedings, Resolutions, Counsells, and Policies of all the concerned Parties [It. dell'vno, e dell'altro partito].

1656 A. Cowley Davideis iii. 100 in Poems With concern'd haste her thoughtful looks she rais'd.

a1682 Sir T. Browne Let. to Friend (1690) 8 To see the Heirs and concerned Relations, gratulating themselves.

1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 504. ⁋4 Taking him aside with a grave concerned countenance.

1780 B. La Trobe tr. D. Cranz Anc. & Mod. Hist. Brethren iv. 234 The treatise..which has proved so blessed and comfortable to many a concerned Lutheran minister.

1832 R. Southey Hist. Peninsular War III. 877 The more concerned spectators were not without fear.

1863 ‘N. Brook’ Gertrude Winn iii. 42 There were tears in her eyes. May saw them and looked very concerned.

1921 J. Galsworthy To Let 204 She was a thin woman with a dark face and the concerned expression of one who has watched every little good that life once had slip from her.

1977 M. McLuhan Let. 10 Aug. (1987) 531 He has become deeply concerned about the growing rate of non-literacy.

1992 Times of India 30 July 5/5 The Prime Minister said the full discussion..had brought to the fore the kind of details that would have come up during the negotiations with the concerned parties.

2000 Brill's Content Aug. 117/1 Nanny cams, which allow concerned parents to spy on their day-care providers.

b. In the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers): experiencing a feeling, arising from an insight into the divine will, that action must be taken on a particular matter. Frequently in well-concerned. Cf. concern n. 4b.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Quakerism > [adjective] > under concern

concerned1680

1680 W. Rogers Christian-Quaker Pref. to Rdr. sig. (D4)^v I shall lay down the Considerations attending me, when I became Conscientiously concerned so to do.

1699 Epist. to Friends 17 After the Meeting for the worship of God was over, then Men, Friends, and Antient concerned Women, to meet together, and consider of this weighty matter.

1797 Jrnl. Life, Travels & Gospel Labours J. Scott iii. 54 I found many well concerned brethren, who seemed to have little or nothing of these scruples.

1830 Friend 15 May 248/2 He appears to be a concerned Friend; a diligent attender not only of his own particular meeting, but also the monthly meeting.

1896 Brit. Friend Feb. 38/2 Educated, well-concerned women Friends might find openings for useful service in Board Schools, Workhouse Schools, and Prison Wards.

1905 Friends' Intelligencer 13 May 301/1 Evening Meetings... The subject will be ‘The Concerned Citizen and Present-day Politics’.

1935 J. Rickman in P. King No Ordinary Psychoanalyst (2003) xv. 288 The feeling of unity with the community that this gives the Concerned Friend being communicated back to those who endorse the Concern.

2013 E. Cazden in S. W. Angell & P. Dandelion Oxf. Handbk. Quaker Stud. xxiii. 360 Throughout the country concerned Friends joined, and in some cases led, community campaigns to promote desegregation and racial justice.

c. Socially aware; having a social conscience; involved in social or moral issues.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social attitudes > public-spiritedness > [adjective]

public1607

national1625

public-spirited1646

civic-minded1907

concerned1961

1961 Mem. & Proc. Manch. Literary & Philos. Soc. 103 59 J. K. Galbraith..looked forward to Kennedy and those associated with him as people who would be ‘concerned’ in the sense of deeply and compassionately aware that there are problems..which need to be met.

1970 Time 13 July NY4/2 What of our idealistic, ‘concerned’ youth? Do we see them demonstrating and protesting against the inhumanities perpetrated by the Viet Cong..? No, sir, they are much too busy..finding fault with America's defense of democracy.

1986 Times 30 Apr. 12/6 [They] are caring, concerned and aware—and you haven't the faintest idea what they're talking about.

2012 Observer (Nexis) 5 Feb. (Review section) 24 A concerned liberal, she writes earnest books about Africa's problems.

2. euphemistic. Having had too much to drink; the worse for drink; drunk. Frequently in concerned with (also in) drink (also liquor). Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [adjective] > drunk

fordrunkenc897

drunkena1050

cup-shottenc1330

drunka1400

inebriate1497

overseenc1500

liquor1509

fou1535

nase?1536

full1554

intoxicate1554

tippled1564

intoxicated1576

pepst1577

overflown1579

whip-cat1582

pottical1586

cup-shota1593

fox-drunk1592

lion-drunk1592

nappy1592

sack-sopped1593

in drink1598

disguiseda1600

drink-drowned1600

daggeda1605

pot-shotten1604

tap-shackled1604

high1607

bumpsy1611

foxed1611

in one's cups1611

liquored1611

love-pot1611

pot-sick1611

whift1611

owl-eyed1613

fapa1616

hota1616

inebriated1615

reeling ripea1616

in one's (or the) pots1618

scratched1622

high-flown?1624

pot-shot1627

temulentive1628

ebrious1629

temulent1629

jug-bitten1630

pot-shaken1630

toxed1635

bene-bowsiea1637

swilled1637

paid1638

soaken1651

temulentious1652

flagonal1653

fuddled1656

cut1673

nazzy1673

concerned1678

whittled1694

suckey1699

well-oiled1701

tippeda1708

tow-row1709

wet1709

swash1711

strut1718

cocked1737

cockeyed1737

jagged1737

moon-eyed1737

rocky1737

soaked1737

soft1737

stewed1737

stiff1737

muckibus1756

groggy1770

muzzeda1788

muzzya1795

slewed1801

lumpy1810

lushy1811

pissed1812

blue1813

lush1819

malty1819

sprung1821

three sheets in the wind1821

obfuscated1822

moppy1823

ripe1823

mixed1825

queer1826

rosined1828

shot in the neck1830

tight1830

rummy1834

inebrious1837

mizzled1840

obflisticated1840

grogged1842

pickled1842

swizzled1843

hit under the wing1844

obfusticatedc1844

ebriate1847

pixilated1848

boozed1850

ploughed1853

squiffy?1855

buffy1858

elephant trunk1859

scammered1859

gassed1863

fly-blown1864

rotten1864

shot1864

ebriose1871

shicker1872

parlatic1877

miraculous1879

under the influence1879

ginned1881

shickered1883

boiled1886

mosy1887

to be loaded for bear(s)1888

squiffeda1890

loaded1890

oversparred1890

sozzled1892

tanked1893

orey-eyed1895

up the (also a) pole1897

woozy1897

toxic1899

polluted1900

lit-up1902

on (also upon) one's ear1903

pie-eyed1903

pifflicated1905

piped1906

spiflicated1906

jingled1908

skimished1908

tin hat1909

canned1910

pipped1911

lit1912

peloothered1914

molo1916

shick1916

zigzag1916

blotto1917

oiled-up1918

stung1919

stunned1919

bottled1922

potted1922

rotto1922

puggled1923

puggle1925

fried1926

crocked1927

fluthered1927

lubricated1927

whiffled1927

liquefied1928

steamed1929

mirackc1930

overshot1931

swacked1932

looped1934

stocious1937

whistled1938

sauced1939

mashed1942

plonked1943

stone1945

juiced1946

buzzed1952

jazzed1955

schnockered1955

honkers1957

skunked1958

bombed1959

zonked1959

bevvied1960

mokus1960

snockered1961

plotzed1962

over the limit1966

the worse for wear1966

wasted1968

wired1970

zoned1971

blasted1972

Brahms and Liszt?1972

funked up1976

trousered1977

motherless1980

tired and emotional1981

ratted1982

rat-arsed1984

wazzed1990

mullered1993

twatted1993

bollocksed1994

lashed1996

1678 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Prov. (ed. 2) 87 Proverbiall Periphrases of one drunk... He is concerned.

1687 in J. R. Bloxham Magdalen Coll. & James II (1886) (modernized text) 71 Mr. Anthony Turner came to ‘the Lobster’ about eleven at night..much concerned in drink.

1731 Wentworth Papers 3 Aug. (1883) 472 I had made a full resolution never to be concern'd in liquor again.

1732 J. Swift Mary the Cook-maid's Let. in Misc.: 3rd Vol. i. 41 Drunk or sober: Not that..his Reverence was ever concern'd to my knowledge.

1753 Extracts Trial J. Stewart in Scots Mag. Aug. 392/2 He thought the pannel was a little concerned with drink.

1834 H. Taylor Philip van Artevelde ii. iii. 3 She's a light-skirts! yea, and at this present A little, as you see, concerned with liquor.

1875 W. D. Parish Dict. Sussex Dial. 30 Concerned in Liquor..one of the many expressions used in Sussex to avoid the word ‘drunk’.

1914 R. Kipling in Metropolitan Mar. 19/3 The man wasn't drunk—only a little concerned in liquor, like.

3. U.S. regional. Chiefly in form consarned. In expressing frustration, annoyance, etc.: ‘damned’, ‘confounded’. Frequently as an intensifier. Also as adv. Cf. concern v. 7.

ΚΠ

1825 S. Woodworth Widow's Son i. i. 12 I have such a consarned beating of the heart, that I can hardly draw my breath.

1834 S. Smith Sel. Lett. Major Jack Downing Pref. p. vi The vetoe, which is a consarnt good thing.

a1852 F. M. Whitcher Widow Bedott Papers (1883) ii. 8 But that's the consarndest lie that ever was told.

1887 M. E. Wilkins Humble Romance 405 I've always heard tell that there was two kinds of old maids—old maids an' consarned old maids.

1935 H. L. Davis Honey in Horn viii. 98 The flare was so consarned hot.

2003 Lockhart (Texas) Post.-Reg. 16 Jan. 5 a/2 There I was, recalling the gillion of times one of the children had entered the room dragging that consarned stuffed bear.

B. n.

With the and plural agreement. Concerned people, those feeling or showing concern; (also) those concerned, involved, or affected. Also formerly in plural.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > state of being upset or perturbed > worry > anxiety > [noun] > concern > concerned people

concerned1653

1653 J. Mullins Multum in Parvo 14 The opportune extending of this Justice and Benignity for alleviating the cares of the concerned.

1680 J. Humfrey & S. Lobb Answer to Dr. Stillingfleet's Serm. 42 The making this Act of better Signification to the Concerned.

1755 N. Magens Ess. Insurances I. 236 Arbitrators were fixed upon..Mr. N. M. for the Concerneds in the Prize.

1768 London Mag. Feb. 103/1 The concerned are extremely anxious for the fate of the Gentle Shepherd, as it is supposed she is wrecked on the above coast.

1884 A. W. Stiffe Return of Wrecks & Casualties Indian Waters 1883 58 The Surveyor..saw no other course than to recommend the Haddington to be sold, as she stood, to the best advantage for the benefit of the concerned.

1920 E. H. Abbott Peace on Earth ii. 107 For a moment only, in comparative quiet, the Concerned struggled with the Concerned.

2011 Independent 11 Feb. (Viewspaper section) 4/3 The sound of scolding and tut-tutting from the ranks of the concerned has become tedious.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	concerned
释义	concernedadj.n. Brit. /kənˈsəːnd/, U.S. /kənˈsərnd/ Forms: see concern v. and -ed suffix¹; also U.S. regional 1800s consarndest (superlative). Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: concern v., -ed suffix¹. Etymology: < concern v. + -ed suffix¹. In sense A. 1b after concern n. 4b. In sense A. 3 perhaps partly a euphemistic substitution for darned adj.² A. adj. 1. a. Characterized by or expressive of concern; feeling or showing concern; troubled, anxious, worried. Also: having a concern in something; affected, involved.Cf. notes at concern v. 4, concern v. 5. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > care, protection, or charge > [adjective] > having kindly interest interessed1598 concerned1648 interested1665 the mind > emotion > suffering > state of being upset or perturbed > worry > anxiety > [adjective] > concerned concerned1648 1648 Earl of Monmouth tr. G. Gualdo Priorato Hist. Late Warres i. 1 Divers Proceedings, Resolutions, Counsells, and Policies of all the concerned Parties [It. dell'vno, e dell'altro partito]. 1656 A. Cowley Davideis iii. 100 in Poems With concern'd haste her thoughtful looks she rais'd. a1682 Sir T. Browne Let. to Friend (1690) 8 To see the Heirs and concerned Relations, gratulating themselves. 1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 504. ⁋4 Taking him aside with a grave concerned countenance. 1780 B. La Trobe tr. D. Cranz Anc. & Mod. Hist. Brethren iv. 234 The treatise..which has proved so blessed and comfortable to many a concerned Lutheran minister. 1832 R. Southey Hist. Peninsular War III. 877 The more concerned spectators were not without fear. 1863 ‘N. Brook’ Gertrude Winn iii. 42 There were tears in her eyes. May saw them and looked very concerned. 1921 J. Galsworthy To Let 204 She was a thin woman with a dark face and the concerned expression of one who has watched every little good that life once had slip from her. 1977 M. McLuhan Let. 10 Aug. (1987) 531 He has become deeply concerned about the growing rate of non-literacy. 1992 Times of India 30 July 5/5 The Prime Minister said the full discussion..had brought to the fore the kind of details that would have come up during the negotiations with the concerned parties. 2000 Brill's Content Aug. 117/1 Nanny cams, which allow concerned parents to spy on their day-care providers. b. In the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers): experiencing a feeling, arising from an insight into the divine will, that action must be taken on a particular matter. Frequently in well-concerned. Cf. concern n. 4b. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Quakerism > [adjective] > under concern concerned1680 1680 W. Rogers Christian-Quaker Pref. to Rdr. sig. (D4)^v I shall lay down the Considerations attending me, when I became Conscientiously concerned so to do. 1699 Epist. to Friends 17 After the Meeting for the worship of God was over, then Men, Friends, and Antient concerned Women, to meet together, and consider of this weighty matter. 1797 Jrnl. Life, Travels & Gospel Labours J. Scott iii. 54 I found many well concerned brethren, who seemed to have little or nothing of these scruples. 1830 Friend 15 May 248/2 He appears to be a concerned Friend; a diligent attender not only of his own particular meeting, but also the monthly meeting. 1896 Brit. Friend Feb. 38/2 Educated, well-concerned women Friends might find openings for useful service in Board Schools, Workhouse Schools, and Prison Wards. 1905 Friends' Intelligencer 13 May 301/1 Evening Meetings... The subject will be ‘The Concerned Citizen and Present-day Politics’. 1935 J. Rickman in P. King No Ordinary Psychoanalyst (2003) xv. 288 The feeling of unity with the community that this gives the Concerned Friend being communicated back to those who endorse the Concern. 2013 E. Cazden in S. W. Angell & P. Dandelion Oxf. Handbk. Quaker Stud. xxiii. 360 Throughout the country concerned Friends joined, and in some cases led, community campaigns to promote desegregation and racial justice. c. Socially aware; having a social conscience; involved in social or moral issues. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social attitudes > public-spiritedness > [adjective] public1607 national1625 public-spirited1646 civic-minded1907 concerned1961 1961 Mem. & Proc. Manch. Literary & Philos. Soc. 103 59 J. K. Galbraith..looked forward to Kennedy and those associated with him as people who would be ‘concerned’ in the sense of deeply and compassionately aware that there are problems..which need to be met. 1970 Time 13 July NY4/2 What of our idealistic, ‘concerned’ youth? Do we see them demonstrating and protesting against the inhumanities perpetrated by the Viet Cong..? No, sir, they are much too busy..finding fault with America's defense of democracy. 1986 Times 30 Apr. 12/6 [They] are caring, concerned and aware—and you haven't the faintest idea what they're talking about. 2012 Observer (Nexis) 5 Feb. (Review section) 24 A concerned liberal, she writes earnest books about Africa's problems. 2. euphemistic. Having had too much to drink; the worse for drink; drunk. Frequently in concerned with (also in) drink (also liquor). Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [adjective] > drunk fordrunkenc897 drunkena1050 cup-shottenc1330 drunka1400 inebriate1497 overseenc1500 liquor1509 fou1535 nase?1536 full1554 intoxicate1554 tippled1564 intoxicated1576 pepst1577 overflown1579 whip-cat1582 pottical1586 cup-shota1593 fox-drunk1592 lion-drunk1592 nappy1592 sack-sopped1593 in drink1598 disguiseda1600 drink-drowned1600 daggeda1605 pot-shotten1604 tap-shackled1604 high1607 bumpsy1611 foxed1611 in one's cups1611 liquored1611 love-pot1611 pot-sick1611 whift1611 owl-eyed1613 fapa1616 hota1616 inebriated1615 reeling ripea1616 in one's (or the) pots1618 scratched1622 high-flown?1624 pot-shot1627 temulentive1628 ebrious1629 temulent1629 jug-bitten1630 pot-shaken1630 toxed1635 bene-bowsiea1637 swilled1637 paid1638 soaken1651 temulentious1652 flagonal1653 fuddled1656 cut1673 nazzy1673 concerned1678 whittled1694 suckey1699 well-oiled1701 tippeda1708 tow-row1709 wet1709 swash1711 strut1718 cocked1737 cockeyed1737 jagged1737 moon-eyed1737 rocky1737 soaked1737 soft1737 stewed1737 stiff1737 muckibus1756 groggy1770 muzzeda1788 muzzya1795 slewed1801 lumpy1810 lushy1811 pissed1812 blue1813 lush1819 malty1819 sprung1821 three sheets in the wind1821 obfuscated1822 moppy1823 ripe1823 mixed1825 queer1826 rosined1828 shot in the neck1830 tight1830 rummy1834 inebrious1837 mizzled1840 obflisticated1840 grogged1842 pickled1842 swizzled1843 hit under the wing1844 obfusticatedc1844 ebriate1847 pixilated1848 boozed1850 ploughed1853 squiffy?1855 buffy1858 elephant trunk1859 scammered1859 gassed1863 fly-blown1864 rotten1864 shot1864 ebriose1871 shicker1872 parlatic1877 miraculous1879 under the influence1879 ginned1881 shickered1883 boiled1886 mosy1887 to be loaded for bear(s)1888 squiffeda1890 loaded1890 oversparred1890 sozzled1892 tanked1893 orey-eyed1895 up the (also a) pole1897 woozy1897 toxic1899 polluted1900 lit-up1902 on (also upon) one's ear1903 pie-eyed1903 pifflicated1905 piped1906 spiflicated1906 jingled1908 skimished1908 tin hat1909 canned1910 pipped1911 lit1912 peloothered1914 molo1916 shick1916 zigzag1916 blotto1917 oiled-up1918 stung1919 stunned1919 bottled1922 potted1922 rotto1922 puggled1923 puggle1925 fried1926 crocked1927 fluthered1927 lubricated1927 whiffled1927 liquefied1928 steamed1929 mirackc1930 overshot1931 swacked1932 looped1934 stocious1937 whistled1938 sauced1939 mashed1942 plonked1943 stone1945 juiced1946 buzzed1952 jazzed1955 schnockered1955 honkers1957 skunked1958 bombed1959 zonked1959 bevvied1960 mokus1960 snockered1961 plotzed1962 over the limit1966 the worse for wear1966 wasted1968 wired1970 zoned1971 blasted1972 Brahms and Liszt?1972 funked up1976 trousered1977 motherless1980 tired and emotional1981 ratted1982 rat-arsed1984 wazzed1990 mullered1993 twatted1993 bollocksed1994 lashed1996 1678 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Prov. (ed. 2) 87 Proverbiall Periphrases of one drunk... He is concerned. 1687 in J. R. Bloxham Magdalen Coll. & James II (1886) (modernized text) 71 Mr. Anthony Turner came to ‘the Lobster’ about eleven at night..much concerned in drink. 1731 Wentworth Papers 3 Aug. (1883) 472 I had made a full resolution never to be concern'd in liquor again. 1732 J. Swift Mary the Cook-maid's Let. in Misc.: 3rd Vol. i. 41 Drunk or sober: Not that..his Reverence was ever concern'd to my knowledge. 1753 Extracts Trial J. Stewart in Scots Mag. Aug. 392/2 He thought the pannel was a little concerned with drink. 1834 H. Taylor Philip van Artevelde ii. iii. 3 She's a light-skirts! yea, and at this present A little, as you see, concerned with liquor. 1875 W. D. Parish Dict. Sussex Dial. 30 Concerned in Liquor..one of the many expressions used in Sussex to avoid the word ‘drunk’. 1914 R. Kipling in Metropolitan Mar. 19/3 The man wasn't drunk—only a little concerned in liquor, like. 3. U.S. regional. Chiefly in form consarned. In expressing frustration, annoyance, etc.: ‘damned’, ‘confounded’. Frequently as an intensifier. Also as adv. Cf. concern v. 7. ΚΠ 1825 S. Woodworth Widow's Son i. i. 12 I have such a consarned beating of the heart, that I can hardly draw my breath. 1834 S. Smith Sel. Lett. Major Jack Downing Pref. p. vi The vetoe, which is a consarnt good thing. a1852 F. M. Whitcher Widow Bedott Papers (1883) ii. 8 But that's the consarndest lie that ever was told. 1887 M. E. Wilkins Humble Romance 405 I've always heard tell that there was two kinds of old maids—old maids an' consarned old maids. 1935 H. L. Davis Honey in Horn viii. 98 The flare was so consarned hot. 2003 Lockhart (Texas) Post.-Reg. 16 Jan. 5 a/2 There I was, recalling the gillion of times one of the children had entered the room dragging that consarned stuffed bear. B. n. With the and plural agreement. Concerned people, those feeling or showing concern; (also) those concerned, involved, or affected. Also formerly in plural. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > state of being upset or perturbed > worry > anxiety > [noun] > concern > concerned people concerned1653 1653 J. Mullins Multum in Parvo 14 The opportune extending of this Justice and Benignity for alleviating the cares of the concerned. 1680 J. Humfrey & S. Lobb Answer to Dr. Stillingfleet's Serm. 42 The making this Act of better Signification to the Concerned. 1755 N. Magens Ess. Insurances I. 236 Arbitrators were fixed upon..Mr. N. M. for the Concerneds in the Prize. 1768 London Mag. Feb. 103/1 The concerned are extremely anxious for the fate of the Gentle Shepherd, as it is supposed she is wrecked on the above coast. 1884 A. W. Stiffe Return of Wrecks & Casualties Indian Waters 1883 58 The Surveyor..saw no other course than to recommend the Haddington to be sold, as she stood, to the best advantage for the benefit of the concerned. 1920 E. H. Abbott Peace on Earth ii. 107 For a moment only, in comparative quiet, the Concerned struggled with the Concerned. 2011 Independent 11 Feb. (Viewspaper section) 4/3 The sound of scolding and tut-tutting from the ranks of the concerned has become tedious. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1648
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