CURIOUS
\kjˈʊɹɪəs], \kjˈʊɹɪəs], \k_j_ˈʊ_ɹ_ɪ__ə_s]\
Definitions of CURIOUS
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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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"
By Princeton University
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Difficult to please or satisfy; solicitous to be correct; careful; scrupulous; nice; exact.
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Exhibiting care or nicety; artfully constructed; elaborate; wrought with elegance or skill.
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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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Exciting attention or inquiry; awakening surprise; inviting and rewarding inquisitiveness; not simple or plain; strange; rare.
By Oddity Software
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Anxious to know; inquisitive; queer; rare.
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Curiousness.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Curiousness.
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Anxious to learn: inquisitive: showing great care or nicety: skillfully made: singular: rare.
By Daniel Lyons
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Curiousness.
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Eager for information; inquisitive.
By James Champlin Fernald
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Desirous to know; inquisitive: careful about; nice; artful; wrought with care and art; singular; strange.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.