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- Latin · derived fromincūriōsus“careless”
- English todayincurious
From Latin incūriōsus (“careless”), from in- (“un-”) and cūriōsus (“careful”). Attested since the 1560s, originally meaning ‘heedless and negligent.’ The sense of ‘uninquisitive’ dates from the 1610s, and the sense of ‘unworthy of attention’ from 1747.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.