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Meaning of 'curious'
Meaning of 'curious' (Webster Dictionary)
1. Curious 
[ 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.
- 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]
[ a]Meaning (1):
- eager to investigate and learn or learn more (sometimes about others' concerns)
- 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]
[ s]Meaning (2):
- beyond or deviating from the usual or expected
- 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
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