Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

incurious

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.64 in modern English

Syllables: in-cu-ri-ous
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

4

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Lacking interest or curiosity; uninterested.

adj

Apathetic or indifferent.

Example Sentences

"A genuine Londoner is the most incurious animal in nature. Divide your acquaintance into two parts; the one set will never have seen Westminster Abbey—the other will be equally ignorant of St. Paul's."
"It takes an extraordinarily incurious mind to believe, in 2019, that the most vulnerable populations online are moderate Republicans like himself, given what women and people of color who dare to participate in public discourse routinely face."

Etymology

From Latin incūriōsus (“careless”), from in- (“un-”) and cūriōsus (“careful”). Attested since the 1560s, originally meaning ‘heedless and negligent.’ The sense of ‘uninquisitive’ dates from the 1610s, and the sense of ‘unworthy of attention’ from 1747.

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: incuriosus

Inflected Forms

more incurious (comparative) most incurious (superlative)

Derived Forms

incuriosity incuriously incuriousness

Synonyms

uncurious noncurious

Antonyms

curious

Questions

What does incurious mean?: Lacking interest or curiosity; uninterested.
Where does incurious come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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