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1. (adj.) curious
eager to learn or know.
2. curious
taking an undue interest in others' affairs; prying.
3. curious
arousing attention or interest through being unusual or hard to explain; odd; strange; novel.
4. curious
Archaic.
5. curious
made or done skillfully or painstakingly.
6. curious
careful; fastidious.
7. curious
marked by intricacy or subtlety.
Etymology: (1275–1325; ME < L cūriōsus careful, inquisitive, prob. back formation from incūriōsus careless, der. of incūria carelessness)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (adj) curious, funny, odd, peculiar, queer, rum, rummy, singular
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"
2. (adj) curious
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"
3. (adj) curious
having curiosity aroused; eagerly interested in learning more
"a trap door that made me curious"
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1. (adjective) curious
wanting to know
As a child he was curious about the universe.; curious to find out what happened
2. curious
strange and interesting; = odd
a curious feeling of love and mistrust; The monkey looked at it curiously.; She had curiously disappeared.
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (adj) curious
difficult to please or satisfy; solicitous to be correct; careful; scrupulous; nice; exact
2. (adj) curious
exhibiting care or nicety; artfully constructed; elaborate; wrought with elegance or skill
3. (adj) curious
careful or anxious to learn; eager for knowledge; given to research or inquiry; habitually inquisitive; prying; -- sometimes with after or of
4. (adj) curious
exciting attention or inquiry; awakening surprise; inviting and rewarding inquisitiveness; not simple or plain; strange; rare
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Sense: strange; odd
a curious habit.
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 Afrikaans: vreemde |
 Arabic: غَريب |
 Bulgarian: любопитен |
 Brazilian: curioso |
 Czech: zvláštní, podivný |
 German: seltsam |
 Danish: mærkelig; ejendommelig |
 Greek: παράξενος |
 Spanish: curioso; extraño, raro |
 Estonian: veider |
 Farsi: عجیب و غریب؛ غیر عادی |
 Finnish: erikoinen |
 French: curieux |
 Hebrew: מוּזָר |
 Hindi: जिज्ञासु |
 Croatian: čudan, neobičan |
 Hungarian: furcsa |
 Indonesian: aneh |
 Icelandic: forvitinn |
 Italian: curioso |
 Japanese: 奇妙な |
 Korean: 이상한 |
 Lithuanian: keistas, neįprastas |
 Latvian: dīvains; neparasts |
 Malay: pelik |
 Dutch: eigenaardig |
 Norwegian: merkelig, rar |
 Polish: dziwny, osobliwy |
 Persian: عجیب و غریب؛ غیر عادی |
 Pashto: غیر عادی ، عجیب او غریب |
 Portuguese: curioso |
 Romanian: ciudat |
 Russian: странный |
 Slovak: zvláštny |
 Slovenian: nenavaden |
 Serbian: neobičan |
 Swedish: egendomlig, underlig |
 Thai: แปลก |
 Turkish: tuhaf, garip |
 Taiwanese: 稀奇古怪的 |
 Ukrainian: дивний, курйозний |
 Urdu: نرالا، انوكها |
 Vietnamese: tò mò |
 Chinese: 稀奇古怪的 |
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