pococurante
Meanings
Plural: pococurantes
Adj
- Apathetic, indifferent or nonchalant.
Noun
- An apathetic, indifferent or nonchalant person.
Origin / Etymology
Borrowed from French pococurante, itself - from Pococurante, a nonchalant Venetian senator in Candide, coined by Voltaire based on Italian poco (“little”) + curante (“caring”).
Synonyms
adiaphroistic, aloof, apathetic, apathistical, blasé, cool, disinterested, dispassionate, dull, enervated, gallionic, halfhearted, heartless, impassive, indifferent, ineffervescible, insensible, insouciant, jaded, lackadaisical, languid, languorous, Laodicean, lethargic, listless, lotophagous, lukewarm, mopey, nonchalant, nonplussed, phlegmatic, pococurante, shiftless, spiritless, supine, tepid, torpedinous, torpid, unaroused, uncaring, unconcerned, unenthusiastic, unimpressible, uninterested, unlively, unmoved, untouched, unzealous, world-weary
Scrabble Score: 17
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