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.