INCURIOUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does incurious mean? 

• INCURIOUS (adjective)
  The adjective INCURIOUS has 1 sense:

1. showing absence of intellectual inquisitiveness or natural curiosity

  Familiarity information: INCURIOUS used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INCURIOUS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Showing absence of intellectual inquisitiveness or natural curiosity

Context example:

strangely incurious about the cause of the political upheaval surrounding them

Similar:

uninterested (having no care or interest in knowing)

uninquiring; uninquisitive (deficient in curiosity)

Also:

uninterested (not having or showing interest)

Antonym:

curious (eager to investigate and learn or learn more (sometimes about others' concerns))

 Context examples 

When Buck and Curly grew excited, half wild with fear, he raised his head as though annoyed, favored them with an incurious glance, yawned, and went to sleep again.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

In each letter he had spoken well of his captain; but yet, so little were they in the habit of attending to such matters, so unobservant and incurious were they as to the names of men or ships, that it had made scarcely any impression at the time; and that Mrs Musgrove should have been suddenly struck, this very day, with a recollection of the name of Wentworth, as connected with her son, seemed one of those extraordinary bursts of mind which do sometimes occur.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)