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incurious

[ in-kyoor-ee-uhs ]

adjective

  1. not curious; not inquisitive or observant; inattentive; indifferent.

    Synonyms: unconcerned, apathetic, uninterested

  2. Archaic. lacking care or attention; careless; negligent.
  3. Archaic. deficient in interest or novelty.


incurious

/ ɪnˌkjʊərɪˈɒsɪtɪ; ɪnˈkjʊərɪəs /

adjective

  1. not curious; indifferent or uninterested


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Derived Forms

  • incuriosity, noun
  • inˈcuriously, adverb

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Other Words From

  • in·cu·ri·os·i·ty [in-ky, oo, r-ee-, os, -i-tee], in·curi·ous·ness noun
  • in·curi·ous·ly adverb

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Word History and Origins

Origin of incurious1

From the Latin word incūriōsus, dating back to 1560–70. See in- 3, curious

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Example Sentences

The American food media has moved past the point where all its readers are as incurious as they may have been decades ago, and tracing the history of “the Julia Child of” suggests it needs to be retired for good.

From Eater

Raised on false welfare-queen stereotypes and bootstrapper self-reliance platitudes that have never solved anyone’s actual problems‚ we as a culture can be maddeningly incurious about lives like Alex’s.

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The former boogeyman of the American left, once viewed as rash, incurious and overly trusting of his gut, has been eclipsed by an even more absurd, menacing figure.

Ingraham pitched this as an “embarrassing admission,” as if the FDA were completely incurious about the treatment.

A book that is supposed to bridge the gap in our understanding of Iran and America seems incurious about both nations’ official records.

He was always affable but ultimately unknowable; intellectually incurious but ferociously ambitious.

Doing so, he highlighted the degree to which creationism is a decidedly incurious, insular worldview.

The Guardian published most of them in 2009, and yet Murdoch remained utterly incurious until June 2011.

Sara Lee sewed more than one rent for him, those days, but she was strangely incurious.

The boys left the room in silence, with the incurious obedience of well-trained children.

She was a strange vessel, sailing in from beyond their ken, and her pilot was almost as novel, yet they were incurious.

Incurious and self-centered, the affairs of the outer world had for her but little real interest.

Now, there never was another place habitually so incurious as Thursday Island in its social dealings.

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