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Definition of incurious adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

incurious

adjective
 
/ɪnˈkjʊəriəs/
 
/ɪnˈkjʊriəs/
(formal)
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  1. having no interest in knowing or discovering things
    Word Originlate 16th cent. (in the sense ‘careless’): partly from Latin incuriosus ‘careless, indifferent’, from in- ‘not’ + Latin curiosus ‘careful’ (from cura ‘care’); partly from in- ‘not’ + curious.
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