insouciant
pronunciation
How to pronounce insouciant in British English:
UK [ɪn'su:sɪənt]
How to pronounce insouciant in American English:
US [ɪn'susɪrnt]
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- Adjective:
- marked by blithe unconcern
Word Origin
- insouciant
- insouciant: see solicit
- insouciant (adj.)
- 1829, from French insouciant "careless, thoughtless, heedless," from in- "not" (see in- (1)) + souciant "caring," present participle of soucier "to care," from Latin sollicitare "to agitate" (see solicit). Related: Insouciantly.
Example
- 1. If there is one market that sums up the insouciant attitude to risk , it would have to be corporate debt .
- 2. This is not to accuse it of being reckless , or insouciant about how it operates .
- 3. Though the mekong is in peril , riparian governments seem oddly insouciant
- 4. We have come to regard ever zippier consumer electronics as a basic right , and are notoriously insouciant about the improvements in basic physics that make them possible .
- 5. If there is one market that sums up the insouciant attitude to risk , it would have to be corporate debt . After an extremely good run , the difference between the interest rate companies pay and that which ( much safer ) treasury bonds pay has fallen substantially .