Meaning & use
uncurious
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Meaning
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Showing no wish to learn, ask questions or find out about things; lacking interest in the world around you.
Grammar: Used before a noun or after be: an uncurious student, she seemed uncurious.
Patterns
- uncurious about something
- an uncurious mind
The uncurious boy never asked why the clock had stopped.
She was oddly uncurious about where the strange package had come from.
A manager who stays uncurious about customer complaints will miss real problems.
Word forms
| comparative | more uncurious |
|---|---|
| superlative | most uncurious |
Common combinations
- remain uncurious
- He remained uncurious even after the teacher described the experiment.
- uncurious about the past
- Many teenagers are uncurious about the past until a family story grabs them.
- an uncurious mind
- An uncurious mind rarely makes discoveries.
- strangely uncurious
- The detective found the witness strangely uncurious about the crime.
Synonyms and how they differ
- incurious
- Incurious is the standard, more widely used word, while uncurious sounds less established and a little more casual.
- apathetic
- Apathetic describes a general lack of feeling or energy, not only a lack of interest in finding things out.
- indifferent
- Indifferent suggests you do not care which way something turns out, whereas uncurious is about not wanting to know.
Opposites
Word family
Commonly confused: uncurious or incurious?
uncurious vs incurious
Both mean not curious, but incurious is the form dictionaries and writers prefer; uncurious is the rarer variant.
Practice
Which sentence uses 'uncurious' correctly?
Choose one answer.
Uncurious means lacking interest in finding things out, so only the sentence about showing no interest fits; the others describe curious behavior.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “uncurious”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.