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nonchalant

[non-shuh-lahnt, non-shuh-lahnt, -luhnt]

adjective

coolly unconcerned, indifferent, or unexcited; casual: His nonchalant manner infuriated me.

Origin:
1725–35; < French nonchalant, present participle of obsolete nonchaloir to lack warmth (of heart), be indifferent, equivalent to non- non- + chaloir < Latin calēre to be warm. See -ant

Related forms

non·cha·lant·ly, adverb

Synonyms
cool, calm, collected, composed.

Antonyms
excitable.

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nonchalant (ˈnɒnʃələnt)

—*adj*
	casually unconcerned or indifferent; uninvolved

[C18: from French, from nonchaloir to lack warmth, from non- + chaloir, from Latin calēre to be warm]

'nonchalance

—n

'nonchalantly

—*adv*

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Word Origin & History

nonchalant

1734, from Fr. nonchalant (see nonchalance). Related: Nonchalantly.

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"There are very few men and women, I suspect, who cooked and marketed their way through the past war without losing forever some of the nonchalant extravagance of the Twenties. They will feel, until their final days on earth, a kind of culinary caution: butter, no matter how unlimited, is a precious substance not lightly to be wasted; meats, too, and eggs, and all the far- brought spices of the world, take on a new significance, having once been so rare. And that is good, for there can be no more shameful carelessness than with the food we eat for life itself. When we exist without thought or thanksgiving we are not men, but beasts."

-M.F.K. Fisher

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