Word Meanings - NONCHALANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Indifferent; careless; cool. (more info) concern one's self for, fr. L. calere to be warm, to be inflamed with
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- NONCHALANT
Indifferent; careless; cool. (more info) concern one's self for, fr. L. calere to be warm, to be inflamed with - FLIPPANT
limber, pliant, or Icel. fleipa to babble, prattle. Cf. Flip, Fillip, 1. Of smooth, fluent, and rapid speech; speaking with ease and rapidity; having a voluble tongue; talkative. It becometh good men, in such cases, to be flippant and free in their - SPRIGHTFUL
Full of spirit or of life; earnest; vivacious; lively; brisk; nimble; gay. -- Spright"ful*ly, adv. Shak. -- Spright"ful*ness, n. Spoke like a sprightful gentlemen. Shak. Steeds sprightful as the light. Cowley. - DERISIVE
Expressing, serving for, or characterized by, derision. "Derisive taunts." Pope. -- De*ri"sive*ly, adv. -- De*ri"sive*ness, n. - SPORTIVE
Tending to, engaged in, or provocate of, sport; gay; froliscome; playful; merry. Is it I That drive thee from the sportive court Shak. -- Sport"ive*ly, adv. -- Sport"ive*ness, n. - CYNICALNESS
The quality of being cynical. - CYNIC; CYNICAL
1. Having the qualities of a surly dog; snarling; captious; currish. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received. Johnson. 2. Pertaining to the Dog Star; as, the cynic, or Sothic, year; cynic - JOCULARITY
Jesting; merriment. - NONCHALANTLY
In a nonchalant, indifferent, or careless manner; coolly. - FLIPPANTNESS
State or quality of being flippant. - CYNIC
1. One of a sect or school of philosophers founded by Antisthenes, and of whom Diogenes was a disciple. The first Cynics were noted for austere lives and their scorn for social customs and current philosophical opinions. Hence the term - SARDONIC
Forced; unnatural; insincere; hence, derisive, mocking, malignant, or bitterly sarcastic; -- applied only to a laugh, smile, or some facial semblance of gayety. Where strained, sardonic smiles are glozing still, And grief is forced to laugh against - JOCULARY
Jocular; jocose; sportive. Bacon. - JOCULAR
1. Given to jesting; jocose; as, a jocular person. 2. Sportive; merry. "Jocular exploits." Cowper. The style is serious and partly jocular. Dryden. - CYNICISM
The doctrine of the Cynics; the quality of being cynical; the mental state, opnions, or conduct, of a cynic; morose and contemptuous views and opinions. - CYNICALLY
In a cynical manner. - ABDERITE
An inhabitant of Abdera, in Thrace. The Abderite, Democritus, the Laughing Philosopher. - JOCULARLY
In jest; for sport or mirth; jocosely. - SARCASTIC; SARCASTICAL
Expressing, or expressed by, sarcasm; characterized by, or of the nature of, sarcasm; given to the use of sarcasm; bitterly satirical; scornfully severe; taunting. What a fierce and sarcastic reprehension would this have drawn from the friendship - SARCASTICALLY
In a sarcastic manner.