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incurious

Other forms: incuriously

If you're incurious, you don't care very much or aren't interested. There's nothing more frustrating to a teacher than a classroom full of incurious students.

The adjective incurious is useful for describing someone who really couldn't care less — who doesn't ask questions or wonder why or how something happens. Incurious people don't make good scientists, journalists, or researchers, because they lack curiosity, or the impulse to know more about something or someone. The roots of incurious are in-, "not," and the Latin curiosus, "inquiring eagerly."

Definitions of incurious
  1. adjective
    showing absence of intellectual inquisitiveness or natural curiosity
    “strangely incurious about the cause of the political upheaval surrounding them”
    synonyms:
    uninterested
    having no care or interest in knowing
    uninquiring, uninquisitive
    deficient in curiosity
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    antonyms:
    curious
    eager to investigate and learn or learn more (sometimes about others' concerns)
    nosey, nosy, prying, snoopy
    offensively curious or inquisitive
    overcurious
    showing excessive curiosity
    inquiring
    given to inquiry
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