Word Meanings - INCURIOUSNESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Unconcernedness; incuriosity. Sordid incuriousness and slovenly neglect. Bp. Hall.

Related words: (words related to INCURIOUSNESS)

• SORDIDNESS
  The quality or state of being sordid.
• INCURIOSITY
  Want of curiosity or interest; inattentiveness; indifference. Sir H. Wotton.
• SORDID
  1. Filthy; foul; dirty. A sordid god; down from his hoary chin A length of beard descends, uncombed, unclean. Dryden. 2. Vile; base; gross; mean; as, vulgar, sordid mortals. "To scorn the sordid world." Milton. 3. Meanly avaricious; covetous;
• INCURIOUSNESS
  Unconcernedness; incuriosity. Sordid incuriousness and slovenly neglect. Bp. Hall.
• NEGLECT
  disregard, neglect, the literal sense prob. neing, not to pick up; nec not, nor (fr. ne not + -que, a particle akin to Goth. -h, -uh, and prob. to E. who; cf. Goth. nih nor) + L. legere to pick up, 1. Not to attend to with due care or attention;
• SLOVENLY
  1. Having the habits of a sloven; negligent of neatness and order, especially in dress. A slovenly, lazy fellow, bolling at his ease. L'Estrange. 2. Characteristic of a solven; lacking neatness and order; evincing negligence; as, slovenly dress.
• NEGLECTION
  The state of being negligent; negligence. Shak.
• NEGLECTFUL
  Full of neglect; heedless; careless; negligent; inattentive; indifferent. Pope. A cold and neglectful countenance. Locke. Though the Romans had no great genius for trade, yet they were not entirely neglectful of it. Arbuthnot. -- Neg*lect"ful*ly,
• NEGLECTEDNESS
  The state of being neglected.
• NEGLECTER
  One who neglects. South.
• NEGLECTINGLY
  Carelessly; heedlessly. Shak.
• NEGLECTIVE
  Neglectful. "Neglective of their own children." Fuller.
• SORDIDLY
  Sordidness.
• SELF-NEGLECTING
  A neglecting of one's self, or of one's own interests. Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin As self-neglecting. Shak.