insouciant

Definition

Casually unconcerned; carefree, indifferent, nonchalant.

Etymology

From French insouciant, from in- (“not”, prefix) + souciant (“worrying”), 1828.

Example Sentences

• "an insouciant gesture"
• ""I am quite serious in saying that your loss must and would be felt; but I verily believe," added she, after a moment's hesitation, "that you are so insouciant yourself, that you cannot believe that every body else is not equally indifferent.""
• "It was there [Cadiz, Spain] that on Sunday I had seen the populace disport itself, and it was full of life then, gay and insouciant."

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