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Adjective: concerned  kun'surnd
  1. 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";
    - interested
     
  2. 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"
     
  3. Culpably involved
    "all those concerned in the bribery case have been identified";
    - implicated
Verb: concern  kun'surn
  1. Be relevant to
    - refer, pertain, relate, come to, bear on, touch, touch on, have to do with
     
  2. Be on the mind of
    - interest, occupy, worry

See also: afraid, attentive, 'fraid [non-standard], haunted, involved, obsessed, preoccupied, solicitous, taken up, troubled

Antonym: unconcerned

Encyclopedia: Concerned

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