pococurante

pococurante
adjective
po·;co·;cu·;ran·;te ;p;-k;-kyu;-;ran-t;  -ku;-
Synonyms of pococurante
: indifferent, nonchalant
pococurantism
;p;-k;-kyu;-;ran-;ti-z;m
-ku;-
 noun


Did you know?
The French writer Voltaire carefully named his characters in Candide (1759) to create allegories. He appended the prefix pan-, meaning "all," to "gl;ssa," the Greek word for "tongue," to name his optimistic tutor "Pangloss," a sobriquet suggesting glibness and talkativeness. Then there is the apathetic Venetian Senator Pococurante, whose name appropriately means "caring little" in Italian. Voltaire's characters did not go unnoticed by later writers. Laurence Sterne used "Pococurante" in part six of Tristram Shandy, published three years after Candide, to mean "a careless person," and Irish poet Thomas Moore first employed the word as an adjective when he described Dublin as a poco-curante place in his memoirs of 1815.

Synonyms
nonchalant
casual
Examples of pococurante in a Sentence
she has put up a strangely pococurante front throughout this whole ordeal

Word History
Etymology
Italian poco curante caring little

First Known Use
1815, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of pococurante was in 1815
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Rhymes for pococurante
concertante
dilettante
dilettanti
asante
durante
galante
aunty
fante
jaunty
monte
ponte
ponty
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