Incurious

Definition: Incurious

Incurious

Adjective

1. Showing absence of intellectual inquisitiveness or natural curiosity; "strangely incurious about the cause of the political upheaval surrounding them".

Date "incurious" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

Etymology: Incurious \In*cu"ri*ous\, adjective. [Latin expression incuriosus: compare to the French expression incurieux. See In- not, and Curious.]. (Websters 1913)

Antonym: curious (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Incuriosity	Verb: be incurious; Adjective: have no curiosity; take no interest in; mind one's own business.
	Adjective: incurious, uninquisitive, indifferent; impassive; uninterested, detached, aloof.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Incurious

English words defined with "incurious": Questionless. (references)

Specialty definitions using "incurious": SUFFRAGETTE. (references)

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	Cinema; nonchalant; airy; aloof; apathetic; blase; calm; careless; casual; cold; collected; composed; cool; detached; disimpassioned; disinterested; dispassionate; easy; effortless; frigid; happy; impassive; imperturbable; incurious; indifferent; insoucia.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Incurious" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Incurious" is used about 10 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	10	111,207

Expression using "incurious": be incurious. Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "incurious"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i pavëmendshëm (absentminded, careless, heedless, inadvertent, inattentive, inconsiderate, oblivious, regardless, unattending), pakureshtar, pa interes (arid, disinterested, lacklustre). (various references)

Arabic		‏غير مهتم (reckless, remiss), ‏غير مبال (indifferent), ‏غافل (asleep, heedless, inadvertent, inattentive, incautious, insensible, oblivious, regardless, thriftless, unmindful, unthinking, unwary). (various references)

Bulgarian		невнимателен (careless, distrait, forgetful, inadvertent, inattentive, inconsiderate, inobservant, inurbane, light hearted, neglectful, negligent, unattentive, unheeding, unkind), нелюбознателен, нелюбопитен, безразличен (colorless, colourless, disinterested, frigid, indifferent, insensible, lukewarm, neutral, poppied, stony, tepid, unimpressed, uninterested, unmoved, untouched), безинтересен (characterless, chippy, dim, frumpish, languid, milk and water, mousey, sapless, soulless, stupid, unamusing, uninteresting, unreadable, vegetable, vegetal, warmed-over). (various references)

French		incurieux, sans curiosité. (various references)

Greek		όχι περίεργοσ, αδιάφοροσ (blasι, dead to, indifferent, lackadaisical, listless, lukewarm, nonchalant, unconcerned, uninterested). (various references)

Hebrew		לא מתע� ין, לא סקר� י. (various references)

Hungarian		közömbös (cool, dry eyed, impassible, impassive, indifferent, inert, lackadaisical, listless, lukewarm, neglectful, neutral, third party, third person). (various references)

Italian		privo di curiosit� . (various references)

Manx		neupheeikearagh. (various references)

Pig Latin		incuriousay

Portuguese		indiferente (aloof, callous, chill, chilly, chippy, cool, devil may care, freezing, frigid, frosty, immaterial, impassion, indifferent, insensitive, laodicean, listless, lukewarm, negligibility, nonchalant, passive, pod, reckless, regardless, supine, unconcern, unconcerned, uninterested, unresponsive), sem curiosidade, negligente (careless, derelict, devil may care, heedless, idle, inadvisable, inattentive, inobservant, lazy, loose, mindless, neglectful, negligent, perfunctory, reckless, regardless, slack, unheeding, unmindful, unwary), negligência (barratry, default, disregard, East, inadvertence, inadvertency, inattention, lapse, misfeasance, neglect, negligence, omissions excepted). (various references)

Romanian		nepãsãtor (airily, apathetic, apathetical, apathetically, careless, casual, devil may care, easy going, happy go lucky, heedless, impassible, impassive, inconsiderate, indifferent, indolent, insensible, insouciant, jaunty, lackadaisical, listless, neglectful, negligent, nonchalant, reckless, regardless, remiss, slack, slow, stolid, thoughtless, unmoved), lipsit de curiozitate. (various references)

Russian		невнимательный (careless, distrait, heedless, inadvertent, inattentive, inobservant, neglectful, remiss, scatter-brained, unattending, unattentive, unheeding, unmindful, unobservant), нелюбопытный. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		neradoznao, nemaran (careless, casual, debonair, delinquent, devil may care, easygoing, feckless, floppy, inattentive, indifferent, neglectful, negligent, reckless, slack, slipshod, sloppy), nehatan (careless, negligent, remiss, slovenly, unheeding). (various references)

Spanish		incurioso. (various references)

Swedish		inte nyfiken, ointresserad (disinterested, lackadaisical, unconcerned, uninterested, unintrested), likgiltig (apathetic, apathetical, half hearted, immaterial, inapprehensive, indifferent, insensible, insouciant, lackadaisical, languid, perfunctory, unconcerned, unsympathetic). (various references)

Turkish		ilgisiz (aloof, apathetic, apathetical, careless, complacent, disinterested, does not apply, impertinent, indifferent, insensible, insouciant, irrelevant, listless, lukewarm, nonchalant, oblivious, phlegmatic, phlegmatical, standoffish, superior, unallied, unconcerned, unconnected, uninterested, unobliging, unrelated), meraksız, kayıtsız (apathetic, apathetical, carefree, careless, devil may care, feckless, footloose, forgetful, freewheeling, impassive, indifferent, listless, nonchalant, reckless, regardless, rough and ready, unconditional, uninscribed, unmindful, unrecorded, unregistered), dikkatsiz (careless, freewheeling, heedless, inadvertent, inattentive, lax, listless, mindless, regardless, remiss, slipshod, unaware, unheedful, unheeding, unobservant, unregardful, unseeing, unwary). (various references)

Ukranian		неуважний (absent, absentminded, abstracted, careless, distrait, erratic, faraway, forgetful, inadvertent, inattentive, inconsiderate, inobservant, mused, neglectful, negligent, oblivious, oscitant, outward, unmindful, vague), нецікавий (arid, tame, uninteresting). (various references)

Vietnamese		thờ ơ không lý thú, không tò mò không để ý. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "incurious": incuriously, incuriousness, incuriousnesses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Incurious" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ecurious, Encrinus, incario, Inoceramus. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "incurious" (pronounced 'In*cu"ri*ous'): Abdominous, Abiogenous, Ablatitious, Abnormous, Absentaneous, Absonous, Abstemious, Abstentious, Abstractitious, Acanthaceous, Acanthocarpous, Acanthocephalous, Acanthophorous, Acanthopodious, Acanthopterous, Acanthopterygious, Acarpellous, Acarpous, Acclivitous, Acclivous, Acephalous, Acetabuliferous, Acetarious, Acetous, Achilous, Achlamydeous, Acholous, Achromatous, Achroous, Achylous, Achymous, Acidiferous, Acidulous, Acinaceous, Acotyledonous, Acrimonious, Acrocarpous, Acrogenous, Acronyctous, Acrosporous, Acrotomous, Actinophorous, Aculeous, Acuminous, Addititious, Adelphous, Adenophorous, Adenophyllous, Adenous, Adiaphorous. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-i-i-n-o-r-s-u-u"
	-2 letters: curious, incisor, ricinus, ruinous, urinous.
	-3 letters: cornus, cousin, curios, incurs, ionics, ironic, orcins, ricins.
	-4 letters: cions, coins, coirs, conus, corns, cornu, curio, curns, icons, incur, incus, ionic, irons, noirs, noris, orcin, ornis, ricin, rosin, ruins, runic, scion, scorn, scour, sonic, uncos, uncus.
	-5 letters: cion, coin, coir, coni, cons, corn, cors, cris, crus, curn, curs.
	Words containing the letters "c-i-i-n-o-r-s-u-u"
	+2 letters: incuriously.
	+3 letters: circumfusion.
	+4 letters: circumfusions, daunorubicins, incuriousness, rectitudinous.
	+5 letters: circuitousness, ridiculousness, superinduction, uncircumcision.
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