concern
1. something that interests you because it is important or affects you (Freq. 21)
- the safety of the ship is the captain's concern
• Hypernyms:
interest, involvement
• Hyponyms:
worldly concern, earthly concern, world, earth, matter,
matter, thing, personal business, personal matters, affairs,
part, point of honor
2. an anxious feeling (Freq. 12)
- care had aged him
- they hushed it up out of fear of public reaction
• Syn:
care, fear
• Derivationally related forms:
fear (for: fear), care (for: care)
• Hypernyms:
anxiety
3. a feeling of sympathy for someone or something (Freq. 4)
- She felt strong concern for those less fortunate
• Ant:
unconcern
• Hypernyms:
sympathy, fellow feeling
• Hyponyms:
solicitude, solicitousness, softheartedness, tenderness
4. something or someone that causes anxiety;
a source of unhappiness (Freq. 4)
- New York traffic is a constant concern
- it's a major worry
• Syn:
worry, headache, vexation
• Derivationally related forms:
vex (for: vexation), worry (for: worry)
• Hypernyms:
negative stimulus
• Hyponyms:
bugaboo, burden, load, encumbrance, incumbrance,
onus, business
5. a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it (Freq. 2)
- he bought his brother's business
- a small mom-and-pop business
- a racially integrated business concern
• Syn:
business, business concern, business organization, business organisation
• Topics:
commercial enterprise, business enterprise, business
• Members of this Topic:
shipping room
• Hypernyms:
enterprise
• Hyponyms:
agency, brokerage, carrier, common carrier, chain,
firm, house, business firm, franchise, dealership, manufacturer,
maker, manufacturing business, partnership, processor, shipbuilder, underperformer
• Member Meronyms:
division
1. be relevant to (Freq. 56)
- There were lots of questions referring to her talk
- My remark pertained to your earlier comments
• Syn:
refer, pertain, relate, come to, bear on,
touch, touch on, have-to doe with
• Derivationally related forms:
pertinent (for: pertain), pertinency (for: pertain), pertinence (for: pertain), reference (for: refer)
• Hyponyms:
focus on, center on, revolve around, revolve about, concentrate on,
center, apply, hold, go for, involve, affect,
regard, matter to, interest
• Verb Group:
allude, touch, advert
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s somebody
- Something ----s something
- Something is ----ing PP (for: relate)
- Something is ----ing PP (for: pertain)
- Something is ----ing PP (for: refer)
2. be on the mind of (Freq. 22)
- I worry about the second Germanic consonant shift
• Syn:
interest, occupy, worry
• Derivationally related forms:
occupation (for: occupy), interest (for: interest)
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s somebody
- The bad news will concern him
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