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who cares

who cares phrase: a reply to an unimportant or irrelevant statement, indicating indifference on the part of the speaker.

Phrase

who cares?

  1. (colloquial, rhetoric) A reply to an unimportant or irrelevant statement, indicating indifference on the part of the speaker.
  2. (colloquial, rhetoric) A reply that dismisses the importance of another speaker's immediately preceding statement.
    • "I'll never speak to you again as long as I live," said Joe, rising. "There now!" And he moved moodily away and began to dress himself.
      "Who cares!" said Tom. "Nobody wants you to. Go 'long home and get laughed at. Oh, you're a nice pirate. Huck and me ain't crybabies. We'll stay, won't we, Huck?...1876, Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 4
    • "But it's ever so much longer, and we're so late," grumbled Duncan.
      "Who cares?" cried Elsie, stolidly. "I'm a girl and I'm not going to climb up the hill in this heat."
      Duncan stared again. He had never heard Elsie complain of the hill before. Usually they scampered up it, and rolled down the...1884 July, author not named, “A Little Too Clever”, in Little Folks: A Magazine for the Young

who cares meaning in Telugu

who cares in Telugu

who cares?
ఎలుక యేట్లో పోతేనేమి, పులి బోనున పోతేనేమి eluka yēṭlō pōtēnēmi

Synonyms of who cares

Antonyms

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Questions about who cares

What does who cares mean?
Who cares means a reply to an unimportant or irrelevant statement, indicating indifference on the part of the speaker.
What is who cares in Telugu?
Who cares in Telugu is ఎలుక యేట్లో పోతేనేమి, పులి బోనున పోతేనేమి (eluka yēṭlō pōtēnēmi). See Who cares meaning in Telugu.
What part of speech is who cares?
Who cares is a phrase.

Words near who cares in the dictionary

  1. who am I kidding
  2. who are you
  3. who are you and what have you done with someone
  4. who are you telling
  5. who ate all the pies
  6. who cares
  7. who died and gave you the reins
  8. who died and left you in charge
  9. who died and made you boss
  10. who died and made you king
  11. who died and made you president

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Adapted from Wiktionary: who cares (page history and authors); ఎలుక యేట్లో పోతేనేమి, పులి బోనున పోతేనేమి (Telugu) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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