curious

[Cu·ri*ous]

If you’re curious, you really want to know something like the secret ingredient that makes these cookies so crunchy. You may wish you hadn’t been so curious when you find out it’s roasted crickets.

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Difficult to please or satisfy; solicitous to be correct; careful; scrupulous; nice; exact.

Adjective
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 nei

Adjective S.
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"; "wh

Adjective S.
having curiosity aroused; eagerly interested in learning more; "a trap door that made me 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.

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.


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.]
Little curious in her clothes.
How shall we, If he be curious, work upon his faith?
2. Exhibiting care or nicety; artfully constructed; elaborate; wrought with elegance or skill.
To devise curious works.
His body couched in a curious bed.
3. Careful or anxious to learn; eager for knowledge; given to research or inquiry; habitually inquisitive; prying; -- sometimes with after or of.
It is a piy a gentleman so very curious after things that were elegant and beatiful should not have been as curious as to their origin, their uses, and their natural history.
4. Exciting attention or inquiry; awakening surprise; inviting and rewarding inquisitiveness; not simple or plain; strange; rare. "Acurious tale" Shak.
A multitude of curious analogies.
Many a quaint and curiousvolume of forgotten lore.
Abstruse investigations in recondite branches of learning or sciense often bring to light curious results.
Curious arts, magic. [Obs.]
Many . . . which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them.
Syn. -- Inquisitive; prying. See Inquisitive.

Difficult to please or satisfy; solicitous to be correct; careful; scrupulous; nice; exact.

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Usage Examples

In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute.

It is curious how, from time immemorial, man seems to have associated the idea of evil with beauty, shrunk from it with a sort of ghostly fear, while, at the same time drawn to it by force of its hypnotic attraction.

A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

I am lucky to have had an attentive, curious and loving dad and heart-smart, down-to-earth, gifted mother. They changed the outlooks of their own lives and have never forgotten the people and organizations that helped them dream bigger than their circumstances should have allowed.

I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

It is a curious phenomena that God has made the hearts of the poor, rich and those of the rich, poor.

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

I can only point out a curious fact. Year after year the Nobel Awards bring a moment of happiness not only to the recipients, not only to colleagues and friends of the recipients, but even to strangers.

India is a curious place that still preserves the past, religions, and its history. No matter how modern India becomes, it is still very much an old country.

After spending time with the rescued turkeys at Farm Sanctuary's shelter and seeing how similar they are to my furry companion animals at home, I knew I needed to do everything in my power to protect these friendly and curious birds from the daily pain and suffering they endure on factory farms.

But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense.

It is curious that, with my somewhat antinomian tendencies, I should have gone to Trinity Hall - which was, and is, before all a Law College - and should thus have been thrown into close touch with the legal element in life.

I get curious about new things. My real strength is going into a field that has not been investigated before, and finding new approaches to it.

I went from not knowing anything to becoming really curious and wanting to know and respecting people in the industry, realizing how hard they work. I will always be thankful for 'Top Model' for that.

I love to travel. I'm a curious person.

I am not a sexy woman, I'm not beautiful, I'm not a sex kitten, I don't flirt with people, yet I've been tagged more of sex symbol than women who truly are and I that's solely because I don't reveal too much: people are curious.

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