Meaning & Definition of Concerned in English

1. Feeling or showing worry or solicitude

• "Concerned parents of youthful offenders"

• "Was concerned about the future"

• "We feel concerned about accomplishing the task at hand"

• "Greatly concerned not to disappoint a small child"

2. Involved in or affected by or having a claim to or share in

• "A memorandum to those concerned"

• "An enterprise in which three men are concerned"

• "Factors concerned in the rise and fall of epidemics"

• "The interested parties met to discuss the business"

3. Culpably involved

• "All those concerned in the bribery case have been identified"

• "Named three officials implicated in the plot"

• "An innocent person implicated by circumstances in a crime"