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Grammar : Adj
Spell : kyoor-ee-uhs
Phonetic Transcription : ˈkyʊər i əs



Definition of uncurious

Origin :
  • mid-14c., "eager to know" (often in a bad sense), from Old French curios "solicitous, anxious, inquisitive; odd, strange" (Modern French curieux) and directly from Latin curiosus "careful, diligent; inquiring eagerly, meddlesome," akin to cura "care" (see cure (n.)). The objective sense of "exciting curiosity" is 1715 in English. In booksellers' catalogues, the word means "erotic, pornographic." Curiouser and curiouser is from "Alice in Wonderland" (1865).
  • As in numb : adj deadened, insensitive
  • As in uninterested : adj oblivious to
  • As in withdrawn : adj unsociable
  • As in incurious : adj detached
  • As in detached : adj aloof, disinterested; neutral
  • As in disinterested : adj detached, uninvolved
Example sentences :
  • A wife is said to be uncurious only with regard to the source of her husbands money.
  • Extract from : « Criminal Psychology » by Hans Gross
  • He brought the car to a halt and surveyed the dripping figure in the road with tired and uncurious eyes.
  • Extract from : « The Boy Scout and Other Stories for Boys » by Richard Harding Davis
  • Uncurious, un-kū′ri-us, adj. not curious or inquisitive: not strange.
  • Extract from : « Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) » by Various

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