Found 4 items, similar to curious.
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Definition: curious
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: curious
curious
adj 1: beyond or deviating from the usual or expected;
“a curious
hybrid accent”;
“her speech has a funny twang”;
“they
have some funny ideas about war”;
“had an odd name”;
“the peculiar aromatic odor of cloves”;
“something
definitely queer about this town”;
“what a rum
fellow”;
“singular behavior” [syn:
funny,
odd,
peculiar,
queer,
rum,
rummy,
singular]
2: 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”
[ant:
incurious]
3: having curiosity aroused; eagerly interested in learning
more;
“a trap door that made me curious”
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Curious
Curious
\Cu"ri*ous\ (k?"r?-?s), a. [OF. curios, curius, F.
curieux, L. curiosus careful, inquisitive, fr. cura care. See
Cure.]
1. Difficult to please or satisfy; solicitous to be correct;
careful; scrupulous; nice; exact. [Obs.]
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Little curious in her clothes. --Fuller.
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How shall we,
If he be curious, work upon his faith? --Beau. & Fl.
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2. Exhibiting care or nicety; artfully constructed;
elaborate; wrought with elegance or skill.
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To devise curious works. --Ex. xxxv. 32
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His body couched in a curious bed. --Shak.
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3. Careful or anxious to learn; eager for knowledge; given to
research or inquiry; habitually inquisitive; prying; --
sometimes with after or of.
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It is a pity a gentleman so very curious after
things that were elegant and beautiful should not
have been as curious as to their origin, their uses,
and their natural history. --Woodward.
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4. Exciting attention or inquiry; awakening surprise;
inviting and rewarding inquisitiveness; not simple or
plain; strange; rare.
“Acurious tale” --Shak.
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A multitude of curious analogies. --Macaulay.
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Many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore.
--E. A. Poe.
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Abstruse investigations in recondite branches of
learning or sciense often bring to light curious
results. --C. J. Smith.
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Curious arts, magic. [Obs.]
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Many . . . which used curious arts brought their
books together, and burned them. --Acts xix.
19.
Syn: Inquisitive; prying. See
Inquisitive.
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