Definitions

incurious

[in-kyoor-ee-uhs] / ɪnˈkyʊər i əs /

ADJECTIVE

apathetic

Synonyms

WEAK

blah callous cold cool could care less couldn't care less detached don't give a damn draggy emotionless flat impassive indifferent insensible laid-back languid lethargic listless moony passive phlegmatic stoic stolid unconcerned unemotional unfeeling uninterested unmoved unresponsive untouched what the hell wimpy

ADJECTIVE

detached

Synonyms

WEAK

abstract aloof apathetic casual cool disinterested dispassionate distant impartial impersonal indifferent laid-back objective out of it poker-faced remote removed reserved spaced-out spacey staid stolid unbiased uncommitted unconcerned uncurious uninterested uninvolved unpassioned unprejudiced withdrawn

Example Sentences

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Throughout, he seems almost willfully incurious about why people hunt.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026

Again and again, he witnesses painful silences in public-school classrooms full of incurious young people who do not read and do not know anything about anything.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026

That the greatest dramatist of the last 500 years is married to someone wholly incurious about his art is, in itself, a tragedy.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 25, 2025

The critique felt not just snobbish, but oddly incurious, a misreading of cakes that are, at heart, celebrations of joy.

From Salon • Aug. 2, 2025

The Orgota seemed not an unfriendly people, but incurious; they were colorless, steady, subdued.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

incurious

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