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incurious

in·cu·rious

uncommon

adjective

1.

showing absence of intellectual inquisitiveness or natural curiosity

  • “strangely incurious about the cause of the political upheaval surrounding them”

Origin

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.

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