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Meaning of 'curious' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Curious [ a.]
- Difficult to please or satisfy; solicitous to be correct; careful; scrupulous; nice; exact.
- Exhibiting care or nicety; artfully constructed; elaborate; wrought with elegance or skill.
- Careful or anxious to learn; eager for knowledge; given to research or inquiry; habitually inquisitive; prying; -- sometimes with after or of.
- Exciting attention or inquiry; awakening surprise; inviting and rewarding inquisitiveness; not simple or plain; strange; rare.

Meaning of 'curious' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . curious [ a]
Meaning (1):
- eager to investigate and learn or learn more (sometimes about others' concerns)
Example in sentence:
  • a curious child is a teacher's delight;
  • a trap door that made me curious;
  • curious about the neighbor's doings;
  • curious investigators;
  • traffic was slowed by curious rubberneckers
2 . curious [ s]
Meaning (2):
- beyond or deviating from the usual or expected
Example in sentence:
  • a curious hybrid accent;
  • had an odd name;
  • her speech has a funny twang;
  • singular behavior;
  • something definitely queer about this town;
  • the peculiar aromatic odor of cloves;
  • they have some funny ideas about war;
  • what a rum fellow

Nearby Words:

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