inquisitive
adjective
given to inquiry, research, or asking questions; eager for knowledge; intellectually curious.
uninquisitive
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a word derived from
inquisitive.
Example Sentences
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More extraordinary, the legendary figure of Andy Protheroe is so keenly and completely alive that it must irresistibly delight that growing herd whose sophistication includes an uninquisitive scorn of mass coeducation.
From Time Magazine Archive
It would be a most uninquisitive President indeed who did not ask his good friend whether that was the whole reason for quitting.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mrs. Sedley was of so easy and uninquisitive a nature that she wasn't even jealous.
From Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
There was no excited demand from those who had stayed at home, for the full story, and even the children seemed uninquisitive.
From The Portal of Dreams by Charles Neville Buck
Only among an uninquisitive people could so imperfect a theory have endured for over fourteen centuries.
From The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization by Ellwood Patterson Cubberley
