Antonyms of adj nosey

1 sense of nosey

Sense 1
nosy, nosey, prying, snoopy -- (offensively curious or inquisitive; "curious about the neighbor's doings"; "he flipped through my letters in his nosy way"; "prying eyes"; "the snoopy neighbor watched us all day")

INDIRECT (VIA curious) -> incurious -- (showing absence of intellectual inquisitiveness or natural curiosity; "strangely incurious about the cause of the political upheaval surrounding them")

Similarity of adj nosey

1 sense of nosey

Sense 1
nosy, nosey, prying, snoopy -- (offensively curious or inquisitive; "curious about the neighbor's doings"; "he flipped through my letters in his nosy way"; "prying eyes"; "the snoopy neighbor watched us all day")
       => curious (vs. incurious) -- (eager to investigate and learn or learn more (sometimes about others' concerns); "a curious child is a teacher's delight"; "a trap door that made me curious"; "curious investigators"; "traffic was slowed by curious rubberneckers"; "curious about the neighbor's doings")

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