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Definition of incurious in English: incuriousadjective ɪnˈkjʊərɪəsɪnˈkjʊriəs Not eager to know something; lacking curiosity. （人或态度）不爱穷究细问的；无好奇心的 as for who had written it, she was oddly incurious Example sentencesExamples - The generalisation is so sweeping, so incurious, and so final that it is utterly meaningless.
- Maria Full of Grace, on the other hand, is pretty incurious about Maria's position in the drug trade's macro-economics.
- I hated how it was brainwashing a generation of bright and well-intentioned children, transforming them into a ghettoized and incurious suburban middle-class.
- The film is fundamentally incurious about the real, complex lives of the individuals involved and the modern footage, with its cheesy home-video effects, is disappointing to say the least.
- I began wondering what kind of civilization could be rich enough to build a star-ship, free enough to allow it to be in private hands, incurious enough to only build one.
- In your background, Mr. President, you apparently were incurious.
- In fact, it's sometimes incurious about his life and work, concentrating rather on the mix of fragments, whispers and urban myths that have arisen about Pynchon, due to his aversion to being photographed or interviewed.
- What about that curiously incurious cadaver, the body politic?
- How do you render them incurious and intellectually languid, with only nervous energy and shallow greed to fill the mental vacuum?
- Tom is, at heart, afraid of the world, suspicious, ego-driven, incurious, and rigid.
- The idea that happiness is desire-satisfaction seems suitably neutral on the content of happy lives, allowing happiness to the intellectual and the incurious alike as long as they are getting what they desire.
- Between them sits another figure, less traditional, less incurious.
- And they aren't stupid, just very religious, incurious and unwilling to take the time to research a view that goes against their ideology.
- In addition to the adviser's name and some information about the construction of the language, I'd still like to understand why the journalists involved are so incurious about the details of this aspect of the movie.
- Discussions of the American alliance in this volume, and our economic and cultural bonds therein, are in general incurious, dogmatic and one-dimensional.
- It helps that he's a nice, if not too clever, guy and his wife is incurious.
- But his description of an incurious, scripted president is the most interesting.
- His cellmates seemed incurious as to how an elderly British pensioner had found himself in prison and Bond was in no mood to enlighten them.
- Neither had anything to declare, as they walked, on different afternoons, nonchalantly past the incurious customs officials in the way one might walk down the marriage aisle if all the guests on either side were asleep.
- She was an undemanding friend, ready to listen with attention, whereas I was incurious about her, perhaps assuming that since she was so young, she had nothing to teach me about books or life, an idea which seemed terribly sad years later.
Synonyms uninterested, indifferent, unconcerned, unmoved, unresponsive, impassive, passive, detached, unfeeling, uncaring, unenthusiastic, lukewarm, bored, apathetic, blasé, nonchalant
Derivativesnoun ɪnkjʊərɪˈɒsɪti There is in the first place, despite an abundance of detail, a certain ethnographic thinness which reflects partly her incuriosity (or, rather, her scepticism) about Hinduism as such. Example sentencesExamples - His incuriosity is probably the biggest negative for the Presidency.
- Still, it is hard to understand the general incuriosity with which victory in that conflict, beginning in the late 1980s, has been greeted.
- As I have said, the history of River Park Square is a lesson in cowardice, incuriosity and a culture of corruption.
- Their incuriosity, and hence their intolerance, spring from the same root.
adverb Turkish troops were passing incuriously between the tents and their latrines dug out on our side. Example sentencesExamples - So I stomped on, incuriously, to the beat of my own drum and never really got anywhere.
- Two Papua New Guinean tribesmen look out incuriously from a small doctored photograph.
- What the human eye observes casually and incuriously, the eye of the camera… notes with relentless fidelity.
- Glittering ominously in the firelight, their eyes followed her incuriously, drawn by movement.
noun His problems are ones of personality - his arrogance, his stubbornness, his complete and utter credulity and incuriousness. Example sentencesExamples - ‘The incuriousness of the girl of college age,’ declared he, ‘is one of the most appalling things I know of.’
- It is hard to fault the government for its incuriousness, when the same appears to have afflicted much of the Canadian media.
- Let him be a lesson of the perilous folly of incuriousness, and the value of speaking truth to power.
- Somehow, our current president's incuriousness is seen as charming and likeable.
OriginLate 16th century (in the sense 'careless'): partly from Latin incuriosus 'careless, indifferent', from in- 'not' + Latin curiosus 'careful' (see curious); partly from in-1 'not' + curious. Definition of incurious in US English: incuriousadjectiveinˈkyo͝orēəsɪnˈkjʊriəs (of a person or their manner) not eager to know something; lacking curiosity. （人或态度）不爱穷究细问的；无好奇心的 as for who had written it, she was oddly incurious Example sentencesExamples - In addition to the adviser's name and some information about the construction of the language, I'd still like to understand why the journalists involved are so incurious about the details of this aspect of the movie.
- His cellmates seemed incurious as to how an elderly British pensioner had found himself in prison and Bond was in no mood to enlighten them.
- The film is fundamentally incurious about the real, complex lives of the individuals involved and the modern footage, with its cheesy home-video effects, is disappointing to say the least.
- She was an undemanding friend, ready to listen with attention, whereas I was incurious about her, perhaps assuming that since she was so young, she had nothing to teach me about books or life, an idea which seemed terribly sad years later.
- Between them sits another figure, less traditional, less incurious.
- Tom is, at heart, afraid of the world, suspicious, ego-driven, incurious, and rigid.
- What about that curiously incurious cadaver, the body politic?
- The generalisation is so sweeping, so incurious, and so final that it is utterly meaningless.
- I hated how it was brainwashing a generation of bright and well-intentioned children, transforming them into a ghettoized and incurious suburban middle-class.
- And they aren't stupid, just very religious, incurious and unwilling to take the time to research a view that goes against their ideology.
- But his description of an incurious, scripted president is the most interesting.
- How do you render them incurious and intellectually languid, with only nervous energy and shallow greed to fill the mental vacuum?
- I began wondering what kind of civilization could be rich enough to build a star-ship, free enough to allow it to be in private hands, incurious enough to only build one.
- Maria Full of Grace, on the other hand, is pretty incurious about Maria's position in the drug trade's macro-economics.
- In your background, Mr. President, you apparently were incurious.
- Discussions of the American alliance in this volume, and our economic and cultural bonds therein, are in general incurious, dogmatic and one-dimensional.
- It helps that he's a nice, if not too clever, guy and his wife is incurious.
- The idea that happiness is desire-satisfaction seems suitably neutral on the content of happy lives, allowing happiness to the intellectual and the incurious alike as long as they are getting what they desire.
- Neither had anything to declare, as they walked, on different afternoons, nonchalantly past the incurious customs officials in the way one might walk down the marriage aisle if all the guests on either side were asleep.
- In fact, it's sometimes incurious about his life and work, concentrating rather on the mix of fragments, whispers and urban myths that have arisen about Pynchon, due to his aversion to being photographed or interviewed.
Synonyms uninterested, indifferent, unconcerned, unmoved, unresponsive, impassive, passive, detached, unfeeling, uncaring, unenthusiastic, lukewarm, bored, apathetic, blasé, nonchalant
OriginLate 16th century (in the sense ‘careless’): partly from Latin incuriosus ‘careless, indifferent’, from in- ‘not’ + Latin curiosus ‘careful’ (see curious); partly from in- ‘not’ + curious. |