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curious    音标拼音: [kj'ʊriəs]
a. 好奇的,求知的,古怪的

好奇的,求知的,古怪的

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" [synonym: {curious}, {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"

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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112 Moby Thesaurus words for "curious":
aberrant, abnormal, absurd, agape, agog, all agog, analytical,
attentive, attracted, barmy, bizarre, burning with curiosity,
careful, catechistic, cathectic, cautious, circumspect, concerned,
considerate, consumed with curiosity, deviant, deviate, eccentric,
enthusiastic, erratic, examining, excited, exotic, extraordinary,
fascinated, freaked out, freakish, freaky, funny, ghoulish,
gossipy, grotesque, heedful, impertinent, inquiring, inquisitional,
inquisitive, inquisitorial, interested, interfering, intermeddling,
interrogational, interrogative, interrogatory, intrusive,
investigative, irregular, itchy, keen on, kinky, kooky, loving,
meddlesome, meddling, mindful, morbid, morbidly curious, nosy,
nuts, nutty, odd, oddball, off, off the wall, offbeat, open-eyed,
openmouthed, out, outlandish, outrageous, outre, overcurious,
passing strange, passionate, peculiar, piqued, pixilated, prurient,
prying, quaint, queer, querying, questioning, quizzical, quizzing,
regardful, scopophiliac, scrutinizing, searching, singular,
snooping, snoopy, solicitous, strange, supercurious, tantalized,
tender, thoughtful, tickled, titillated, turned-on, unconventional,
unearthly, unusual, voyeuristic, weird, wondrous strange

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  • CURIOUS Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster
    Since the 1300s, "curious" has been variously used to describe things that in some way require, invite, or are characterized by carefulness or inquisitiveness In so doing, it carries on the legacy of its Latin source, the adjective curiosus, meaning "careful" or "inquisitive "
  • CURIOUS | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
    CURIOUS definition: 1 interested in learning about people or things around you: 2 strange and unusual: 3… Learn more
  • Curious - definition of curious by The Free Dictionary
    Define curious curious synonyms, curious pronunciation, curious translation, English dictionary definition of curious eager to acquire knowledge; inquisitive: He was curious to know how she had come by so many of the rare objects
  • curious adjective - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage notes . . .
    Definition of curious adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more
  • CURIOUS definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary
    If you describe something as curious, you mean that it is unusual or difficult to understand There is a curious thing about her writings in this period The pageant promises to be a curious mixture of the ancient and modern The naval high command's response to these developments is rather curious
  • curious - WordReference. com Dictionary of English
    Curious, inquisitive, meddlesome, prying refer to taking an undue (and petty) interest in others' affairs
  • curious - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
    curious (comparative more curious or curiouser, superlative most curious or curiousest) Tending to ask questions, or to want to explore or investigate; inquisitive; (with a negative connotation) nosy, prying
  • CURIOUS Definition Meaning | Dictionary. com
    CURIOUS definition: eager to learn or know; inquisitive See examples of curious used in a sentence
  • Curious Definition Meaning | YourDictionary
    Arousing attention or interest because unusual or strange; odd Highly detailed, as in workmanship; elaborate Accomplished with skill or ingenuity From Old French curios, from Latin curiosus She looked up at him with a curious smile I'm just a curious citizen We make curious mistakes sometimes There were many curious onlookers
  • CURIOUS Synonyms: 141 Similar and Opposite Words - Merriam-Webster
    How does the adjective curious contrast with its synonyms? The words inquisitive and prying are common synonyms of curious While all three words mean "interested in what is not one's personal or proper concern," curious, a neutral term, basically connotes an active desire to learn or to know





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