INSOUCIANT

casual, insouciant, nonchalant

(adjective) 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”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

insouciant (comparative more insouciant, superlative most insouciant)

Casually unconcerned; carefree, indifferent, nonchalant.

Anagrams

• incautions

Source: Wiktionary


In`sou`ciant", a. Etym: [F.]

Definition: Careless; heedless; indifferent; unconcerned. J. S. Mill.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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