incurious
pronunciation
How to pronounce incurious in British English:
UK [ɪnˈkjʊəriəs]
How to pronounce incurious in American English:
US [ɪnˈkjʊriəs]
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- Adjective:
- showing absence of intellectual inquisitiveness or natural curiosity
Word Origin
- incurious (adj.)
- 1560s, "negligent, heedless," from Latin incuriosus "careless, negligent, unconcerned," from in- "not, opposite of, without" (see in- (1)) + curiosus (see curious). Meaning "uninquisitive" is from 1610s. Objective sense of "unworthy of attention" is from 1747.
Example
- 1. He 's not lazy . He 's not incurious .
- 2. Strangely incurious about the causes of the political upheaval surrounding her .
- 3. Robin hood himself seems incurious where his arrows will strike , or at least unwilling to be specific .
- 4. She gave the travellers a swift , incurious glance .
- 5. He seemed curiously incurious about vital details , such as the conduct of the war in iraq .