| 单词 | incurious |
| 释义 | incurious (once / 16281 pages) adj If you're incurious, you don't care very much or aren't interested. There's nothing more frustrating to a teacher than a classroom full of incurious students. The adjective incurious is useful for describing someone who really couldn't care less — who doesn't ask questions or wonder why or how something happens. Incurious people don't make good scientists, journalists, or researchers, because they lack curiosity, or the impulse to know more about something or someone. The roots of incurious are in-, "not," and the Latin curiosus, "inquiring eagerly." WORD FAMILYincurious: incuriously+/curiosity: curiosities/curious: curiosity, curiouser, curiousest, curiously, curiousness, incurious, overcurious USAGE EXAMPLESDoes everyone stay on and do their jobs under a man who is proudly incurious and demonstrably interested only in winning at all costs? Slate(Nov 09, 2016) Persuasive to the alienated Trump voters who seem content to roll the dice on an untested, incurious, and megalomaniacal vanity candidate? The New Yorker(Nov 04, 2016) What is a "crime" is how breathtakingly shallow and incurious about the world he seems to be. New York Times(Oct 25, 2016) adj showing absence of intellectual inquisitiveness or natural curiosity strangely incurious about the cause of the political upheaval surrounding them Syn|Ant uninterested having no care or interest in knowing uninquiring, uninquisitivedeficient in curiosity curious eager to investigate and learn or learn more (sometimes about others' concerns) inquisitive, questioning, speculative, wonderingshowing curiosity nosey, nosy, prying, snoopyoffensively curious or inquisitive overcuriousshowing excessive curiosity inquiringgiven to inquiry |
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