incurious
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8.1
- adjective
- /ɪnˈkjʊəriəs/
:
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.
- It it makes you very incurious, lacking curiosity about about yourself, about human beings.
- He seems so incurious about who gets to tell stories, whose meanings are allowed to stick and whose are not.
Examples
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We have two remarkably incurious and lazy reporters.
Blog text (26) -
Lydia had always been the good daughter, sweet-tempered and incurious, never dreaming of taking flight.
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Is he saying his officials hid this information from him or was he just too incurious to ask any questions?
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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.
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A hundred blank, incurious faces turned my way.
Synonyms
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Not interested in learning new things
Not curious about learning or asking questions
A person or thing that is not curious and does not ask questions
Not willing to try new things or look for new information
Antonyms
How Curious
Surface Forms
Morphology
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.