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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

uninquiring en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English inquiring English uninquiring From un- + inquiring.

Meanings

  1. Not inquiring; thus, lacking curiosity.
    • Your column might be dismissed as vapid and predigested pap, catering to and titillating, I must assume, the uninquiring minds [… 1988 January 15, C. Arnold, “Vapid Pap”, in Chicago Reader:

Forms

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more uninquiring Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most uninquiring Degree=Sup lexicographic

Deriveds

uninquiringly