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incurious

incurious

2 8.1
Not wanting to learn about new things
  • adjective
  • /ɪnˈkjʊəriəs/
translation icon : incurioso
  • He seems so incurious about who gets to tell stories, whose meanings are allowed to stick and whose are not.
  • so incurious
  • incurious eyes

It it makes you very incurious, lacking curiosity about about yourself, about human beings.

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Examples

  • We have two remarkably incurious and lazy reporters.

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  • Lydia had always been the good daughter, sweet-tempered and incurious, never dreaming of taking flight.

  • Is he saying his officials hid this information from him or was he just too incurious to ask any questions?

  • It's funny you can see the trees at the edges of the forest, but are incurious about all the other trees behind them.

    Blog text (17)
  • A hundred blank, incurious faces turned my way.

    Fiction book (2002)
  • When the doctor came to explain her condition, she was uncharacteristically incurious.

    Fiction book (1992)
  • Lydia had always been the good daughter, sweet-tempered and incurious, never dreaming of taking flight.

    Fiction book (1992)
  • Outside of their sphere of expertise, however, they're remarkably naive and intellectually incurious.

    Blog text (14)
  • His classmates were incurious about the new glasses -- they were teenagers, after all, not interested in much outside themselves.

  • A hundred blank, incurious faces turned my way.

Synonyms

uncurious
vsincurious
1 6.6

Not interested in learning new things

emphasizes not wanting to learn about things in general
uninquisitive
vsincurious
8.1

Not curious about learning or asking questions

focuses on absence of general learning interest rather than only question asking
uninquiring
vsincurious
8.9

A person or thing that is not curious and does not ask questions

covers lack of general interest in learning beyond just not asking
nonexplorative
vsincurious
9.1

Not willing to try new things or look for new information

means low general desire to learn rather than specific lack of exploration habit

Antonyms

675 1.3

Wanting to learn more about something and asking questions

How Curious

curious
675 1.3
interested
1.0
indifferent
46 4.4
apathetic
24 6.8
incurious
2 8.1

Surface Forms

incurious positive

Morphology

incurious = curious (transparent) = in + curious

This is a regular negative-prefix formation meaning simply 'not curious'.

Etymology

Incurious is made of in- 'not' and curious, from an old root meaning 'care', like the everyday word 'care'. So incurious means 'not caring' enough to ask questions or learn new things.