concern

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of CONCERN

to have (something) as a subject matter <the book concerns the challenges faced by children growing up in single-parent households>

Synonyms cover, deal (with), pertain (to), treat (of)

Related Words appertain (to), bear (on or upon), refer (to), relate (to); advert (to), allude (to), cite, glance (upon), instance, mention, name, note, notice, quote, specify, touch (upon); offer, present; contain, embrace, encompass, entail, include, incorporate

Phrases have to do with

Near Antonyms exclude, omit; disregard, forget, ignore, neglect, overlook, overpass, pass over, slight, slur (over); brush (aside or off), reject, shrug off

to be the business or affair of <the problems of air and water pollution that concern all of us>

Synonyms affect, involve, touch

Related Words appertain (to), apply (to), bear (on), pertain (to), refer (to), relate (to); embroil, ensnare, entangle, implicate

to trouble the mind of; to make uneasy <we were greatly concerned by reports that yet another previously unknown virus is now posing a threat>

Synonyms agitate, ail, alarm (also alarum), bother, concern, derail, discomfort, discompose, dismay, disquiet, distemper, distract, distress, exercise, flurry, frazzle, freak (out), fuss, hagride, perturb, undo, unhinge, unsettle, upset, weird out, worry

Near Antonyms allay, alleviate, assuage; appease, conciliate, mollify, pacify, placate, propitiate

Antonyms calm, compose, quiet, settle, soothe, tranquilize (also tranquillize)

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