Nonchalant

Definition: Nonchalant

Nonchalant

Adjective

1. Marked by blithe unconcern; "an ability to interest casual students"; "showed a casual disregard for cold weather"; "an utterly insouciant financial policy"; "an elegantly insouciant manner"; "drove his car with nonchalant abandon"; "was polite in a teasing nonchalant manner".

Date "nonchalant" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1843. (references)

Etymology: Nonchalant \Non`cha`lant"\, adjective. [French expression, from non not (L. non) chaloir to concern one's self for, from the Latin expression calere to be warm, to be inflamed with desire, to be troubled. See Non-, and Caldron.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Nonchalant

Synonyms: casual (adj), insouciant (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Insensibility	Unconcerned, nonchalant, pococurante, insouciant, sans souci; unambitious.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Nonchalant

English words defined with "nonchalant": casual ♦ insouciant. (references)

Etymologies containing "nonchalant": Nonchalance. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Nonchalant" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Dutch (careless, neglectful, negligent, remiss), French (indolent, lazy, nonchalant, tardy), German (nonchalant), Swedish (airy, casual, casually, cavalier, flippant, jaunty, lackadaisical, off hand, offhand, offhanded).

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Now, which is the most nonchalant chair to be discovered in? (The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy; writing credit: Douglas Adams; John Lloyd)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Giving Professional Presentations in the Behavioral Sciences : A Practical Guide for Novice , the Nervous and the Nonchalant (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Nonchalant (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Play	Caption
	Cinema; nonchalant; airy; aloof; apathetic; blase; calm; careless; casual; cold; collected; composed; cool; detached; disimpassioned; disinterested; dispassionate; easy; effortless; frigid; happy; impassive; imperturbable; incurious; indifferent; insoucia.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Nonchalant" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Nonchalant" is used about 65 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	65	41,645

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "nonchalant"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		shpërfillës (disdainful), mospërfillës (cavalier, defiant, disdainful, flippant, impervious, indifferent, languid, neglectful, negligent, snooty, uninterested, unsympathetic), moskokëçarës (indifferent, inobservant, light, negligent, reckless, unsympathetic). (various references)

Arabic		‏لامبال (apathetic, careless, cold-hearted, disinterested, indifferent, insouciant, perfunctory, unconcerned, uninterested), ‏غير مكترث (indifferent, not aware, not to care a hanging, tardy), ‏رابط الجأش (collected, composed, cool, cucumber, imperturbable, philosophical, phlegmatical, possessed, self possessed). (various references)

Bulgarian		равнодушен (apathetic, apathetical, careless, cold, cold blooded, indifferent, insensible, listless, lukewarm, pococurante, unconcerned, unmoved, vacant), безгрижен (airy, carefree, careless, devil may care, easygoing, happy go lucky, light, light hearted, lightsome, rollicking, slaphappy, unbending). (various references)

Czech		nonšalantní (casual, negligent), nenucený (casual, easy, effortless, glib, informal, relaxed, spontaneous, throwaway, unceremonious, unconstrained, unstudied), lhostejný (apathetic, casual, cold, coldly, detached, impassive, impervious, indifferent, insensible, lackadaisical, neglectful, negligent, phlegmatic, unconcerned, uninterested, unsympathetic). (various references)

Farsi		مسامحه کار (Negligent), سهل انگار (Inconsiderate, Lax), اهمال کار (Dawdle, Lax), بی علاقه (Uninterested, Unresponsive). (various references)

Finnish		yliolkainen (supercilious). (various references)

French		nonchalant. (various references)

German		lässig (airy, careless, carelessly, casual, cool, easy going, languid, languidly, negligently, nonchalantly, offhand, remiss, remissly). (various references)

Greek		νωχελικόσ (indolent), αδιάφοροσ (blasι, dead to, incurious, indifferent, lackadaisical, listless, lukewarm, unconcerned, uninterested). (various references)

Hebrew		קר רוח (cool, dispassionate, imperturbable, listless, unflappable). (various references)

Hungarian		kényelmes (comfortable, comfy, commodious, convenient, cosh, cosy, cozy, cushy, easy going, handy, leisured, leisurely), hidegvérű (calm, ectothermal, imperturbable, unemotional), hanyag (derelict, heedless, inadvertent, inattentive, inobservant, inofficious, insouciant, lax, neglectful, negligent, oblivious, perfunctory, remiss, slipshod, sloppy, slow, slubberer). (various references)

Indonesian		pengabaian (careless), ancak-ancak (causal, indifferent). (various references)

Italian		indifferente (apathetic, apathetical, blasé, callous, cold, cold-hearted, cool, half hearted, immaterial, impassible, indifferent, listless, lukewarm, unconcerned, uninterested), freddo (bleak, chill, chilliness, chilly, cold, cold-hearted, coldness, cool, raw, stiff, winterly, wintry). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		然り気無い (in a casual manner, unconcerned), 然り気ない (in a casual manner, unconcerned), ノイマン型 (christmas, fungo, Hague, heart, Hercules, hook, knob, knock, knockdown, knocker, knocking, knock-on, knockout, knot, know, know-how, knowledge, nautical mile per hour, Neumann-type, neuron, neurosis, no, noctovision, nocturne, nominal, nominal price, nominate, nomination, nomogram, nomograph, non career, non cling, non store retailing, non troppo, non-attachment disease, nonbank banking, nonbook, non-conforming design, nonfiction, nonius, nonpolitical, non-professional, nonrun, non-sectarian, nonsense, nonslip, nonstop, non-terminal, nontitle match, non-verbal, non-verbal communication, Noraism, Nordic, Norma, Normandy, Norway, nostalgia, nostalgic, nostalgie, notation, notch, notchback, notch-filter, nova, Nova Scotia, novel, novelty, nozzle, number, swastika, unaffiliated, vernier calipers, vernier micrometer). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ノンチャラン , さり�'ない (in a casual manner, unconcerned). (various references)

Pig Latin		onchalantnay

Portuguese		indiferente (aloof, callous, chill, chilly, chippy, cool, devil may care, freezing, frigid, frosty, immaterial, impassion, incurious, indifferent, insensitive, laodicean, listless, lukewarm, negligibility, passive, pod, reckless, regardless, supine, unconcern, unconcerned, uninterested, unresponsive), frieza (bleakness, chill, coldness, coolness, frigidity, phlegm, stand off), desprendido (devil may care, floating, free), desinteressado (aloof, candid, devil may care, disinvestment, indifferent, laodicean, listless, lukewarmness, non-partisan, passivity, unbiased, unconcern, unconcerned, uninterested, unselfish, unworldly). (various references)

Romanian		nepãsãtor (airily, apathetic, apathetical, apathetically, careless, casual, devil may care, easy going, happy go lucky, heedless, impassible, impassive, inconsiderate, incurious, indifferent, indolent, insensible, insouciant, jaunty, lackadaisical, listless, neglectful, negligent, reckless, regardless, remiss, slack, slow, stolid, thoughtless, unmoved), indolent (careless, easy going, idle, indolent, lazy, remiss, slack, sleepy, slothful, supine, truant, unheeding), indiferent (all one, all the same, anywhere, apathetic, apathetical, careless, chill, cool, dull, impassive, indifferent, indifferently, inhuman, insensible, insensitive, lackadaisical, languid, listless, numb, perfunctory, phlegmatic, pococurante, reckless, remiss, slack, slow, sluggish, stolid, unconcerned, unimportant, unmoved). (various references)

Russian		беззаботный (carefree, careless, devil may care, happy go lucky, light hearted, lighthearted, light-hearted, reckless, slap-happy, unconcern, unconcerned). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		nonšalantan (debonair), nehajan (hit or miss, negligent, unmindful). (various references)

Spanish		impasible a (impervious, stolid), despreocupado (breezy, carefree, devil may care, disregarded, happy go lucky, slapdash, slovenly, unconcerned). (various references)

Swedish		vårdslös (careless, inattentive, slipshod). (various references)

Turkish		soğukkanlı (calm, cold blooded, cool, cool-headed, even tempered, imperturbable, unflappable, unperturbed), lakayt (careless, indifferent, neglectful, negligent, reckless, slapdash), kayıtsız (apathetic, apathetical, carefree, careless, devil may care, feckless, footloose, forgetful, freewheeling, impassive, incurious, indifferent, listless, reckless, regardless, rough and ready, unconditional, uninscribed, unmindful, unrecorded, unregistered), ilgisiz (aloof, apathetic, apathetical, careless, complacent, disinterested, does not apply, impertinent, incurious, indifferent, insensible, insouciant, irrelevant, listless, lukewarm, oblivious, phlegmatic, phlegmatical, standoffish, superior, unallied, unconcerned, unconnected, uninterested, unobliging, unrelated), heyecansız (lowpitched, passionless, unemotional, unexcited, unexciting, unimpassioned, unsensational). (various references)

Ukranian		нечулий (callous, chill, hard boiled), недбалий (careless, casual, dishonest, heedless, inattentive, lax, neglectful, negligent, oscitant, overly, slovenly, unguarded), безтурботний (carefree, careless, cavalier, devil may care, easygoing, effortless, gay, happy go lucky, heedless, inadvertent, jaunty, light hearted, neglectful, negligent, placid, rollicking, serene, unconcerned, watchless), байдужий (apathetic, apathetical, barren, chill, cold, cold blooded, cold-hearted, cold-livered, disinterested, frigid, half hearted, impassible, indifferent, insensible, insentient, neutral, passionless, unaffected, unconcerned, uninterested, unmoved). (various references)

Vietnamese		vô tình trễ nãi, thờ ơ (apathetic, cool, disinterested, indifferent, lethargic, lethargical, listless, pococurante), sơ suất; không chú ý, lânh đạm (frosty, icily, indifferent), không cẩn thận (careless, slipshod), hờ hững (apathetic, cold, cold-blooded, cold-hearted, coldly, coolish, disinterested, indifferent, unconcerned). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "nonchalant": nonchalantly. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Nonchalant" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: nonchalan, nonchalanc, nonchalants, nonchalat, nonchalaunt, nonchalent, nonchanlant, nonchelant, noncholant, nonchslant. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "nonchalant" (pronounced nÄ'nshulÄ"nt)
3	-Ä" n t	avant, commandant, croissant, detente, font, savant, want.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-h-l-n-n-n-o-t"
	-2 letters: cantonal.
	-3 letters: anconal, canthal.
	-4 letters: atonal, cannon, cannot, canola, canton, catalo, chalot, choana, lochan.
	-5 letters: alant, aloha, altho, ancon, annal, canal, canna, canon, canto, chant, cloth, coala, cotan, honan, latch, loach, loath, lotah, nacho, natal, natch, notal, notch, octal, octan, talon, tolan, tonal.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-c-h-l-n-n-n-o-t"
	+2 letters: nonchalantly.
	+4 letters: channelization.
	+5 letters: channelizations.
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