Curious
['kjʊərɪəs] or ['kjʊrɪəs]
Definition
(adj.) 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' .
(adj.) 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' .
(adj.) having curiosity aroused; eagerly interested in learning more; 'a trap door that made me curious' .
Checked by Dale--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Difficult to please or satisfy; solicitous to be correct; careful; scrupulous; nice; exact.
(a.) Exhibiting care or nicety; artfully constructed; elaborate; wrought with elegance or skill.
(a.) Careful or anxious to learn; eager for knowledge; given to research or inquiry; habitually inquisitive; prying; -- sometimes with after or of.
(a.) Exciting attention or inquiry; awakening surprise; inviting and rewarding inquisitiveness; not simple or plain; strange; rare.
Checker: Mollie
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Inquisitive, scrutinizing, prying, peering.[2]. Rare, singular, strange, unusual, unique, extraordinary, queer, out of the way.[3]. Elegant, neat, nice, finished.
Checked by Ernest
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Inquiring, inquisitive, scrutinizing, prying, meddling, singular, searching,interrogative, peeping, peering, rare, unique, odd, recondite
ANT:Indifferent, uninquiring, incurious, uninterested, trite, common, superficial
Checked by Estes
Definition
adj. anxious to learn: inquisitive: showing great care or nicety: skilfully made: singular: rare.—n. Curios′ity state or quality of being curious: inquisitiveness: that which is curious: anything rare or unusual.—adv. Cū′riously.—n. Cū′riousness.—Curious arts (B.) magical practices.
Typist: Morton
Examples
- It is curious that my mother, too, ran away from her family, but not for the sake of her husband. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Mine is a curious fate. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Were thy garments searched by as curious an eye, Isaac, said he, what discoveries might not be made? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- I heard it, as I have in my time heard other curious things in the same place. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I handed it back to Mr. Murthwaite, and owned that this curious specimen of Hindoo correspondence rather puzzled me. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Having discovered this relation, which requires no farther examination, I am curious to find some other of their qualities. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- How a living animal obtains its quantity of this fluid, called fire, is a curious question. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Your observation of the similitude between many of the words and those of the ancient world, are indeed very curious. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- It is a curious fact that in the Edison family the pronunciation of the name has always been with the long e sound, as it would naturally be in the Dutch language. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- With curious readiness did she adapt herself to such themes as interested him. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- And any one could see that he shook with fear, and that there broke out upon his lips curious white flakes, like thin snow. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- It contains as fundamental truths as have been uttered about education in conjunction with a curious twist. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It is curious to note that this law against the imitation of silver, which really dated from the fifteenth century, made a special exception to articles made for the Church. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- I say, it would be curious if it got into Bulstrode's hands after all. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- So to speak, there was in these respects a curious inattention in my mind. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
Checker: Raymond