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curious
(mass) | curious
- zvedavý |
curious
(encz) | curious,kuriózní Stan |
curious
(encz) | curious,zvědav |
curious
(encz) | curious,zvědavý |
curious
(encz) | curious,zvláštní Stan |
Curious
(gcide) | 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.]
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Little curious in her clothes. --Fuller.
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How shall we,
If he be curious, work upon his faith? --Beau. & Fl.
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2. Exhibiting care or nicety; artfully constructed;
elaborate; wrought with elegance or skill.
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To devise curious works. --Ex. xxxv. 32
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His body couched in a curious bed. --Shak.
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3. 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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It is a pity a gentleman so very curious after
things that were elegant and beautiful should not
have been as curious as to their origin, their uses,
and their natural history. --Woodward.
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4. Exciting attention or inquiry; awakening surprise;
inviting and rewarding inquisitiveness; not simple or
plain; strange; rare. "Acurious tale" --Shak.
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A multitude of curious analogies. --Macaulay.
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Many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore.
--E. A. Poe.
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Abstruse investigations in recondite branches of
learning or sciense often bring to light curious
results. --C. J. Smith.
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Curious arts, magic. [Obs.]
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Many . . . which used curious arts brought their
books together, and burned them. --Acts xix.
19.
Syn: Inquisitive; prying. See Inquisitive.
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curious
(wn) | curious
adj 1: 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" [syn: curious, funny, odd,
peculiar, queer, rum, rummy, singular]
2: 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" [ant: incurious]
3: having curiosity aroused; eagerly interested in learning
more; "a trap door that made me curious" |
| | podobné slovo | definícia |
curious
(mass) | curious
- zvedavý |
curious
(encz) | curious,kuriózní Stancurious,zvědav curious,zvědavý curious,zvláštní Stan |
curiouser
(encz) | curiouser,zvědavější adj: Zdeněk Brož |
curiousest
(encz) | curiousest, |
curiously
(encz) | curiously,zvědavě adv: Zdeněk Brož |
curiously enough
(encz) | curiously enough, adv: |
curiousness
(encz) | curiousness,zvědavost n: Zdeněk Brož |
incurious
(encz) | incurious,lhostejný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
incuriously
(encz) | incuriously,lhostejně adv: Zdeněk Brož |
overcurious
(encz) | overcurious,příliš zvědavý Zdeněk Brož |
Curious arts
(gcide) | 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.]
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Little curious in her clothes. --Fuller.
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How shall we,
If he be curious, work upon his faith? --Beau. & Fl.
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2. Exhibiting care or nicety; artfully constructed;
elaborate; wrought with elegance or skill.
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To devise curious works. --Ex. xxxv. 32
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His body couched in a curious bed. --Shak.
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3. 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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It is a pity a gentleman so very curious after
things that were elegant and beautiful should not
have been as curious as to their origin, their uses,
and their natural history. --Woodward.
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4. Exciting attention or inquiry; awakening surprise;
inviting and rewarding inquisitiveness; not simple or
plain; strange; rare. "Acurious tale" --Shak.
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A multitude of curious analogies. --Macaulay.
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Many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore.
--E. A. Poe.
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Abstruse investigations in recondite branches of
learning or sciense often bring to light curious
results. --C. J. Smith.
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Curious arts, magic. [Obs.]
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Many . . . which used curious arts brought their
books together, and burned them. --Acts xix.
19.
Syn: Inquisitive; prying. See Inquisitive.
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Curiously
(gcide) | Curiously \Cu"ri*ous*ly\, adv.
In a curious manner.
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Curiousness
(gcide) | Curiousness \Cu"ri*ous*ness\, n.
1. Carefulness; painstaking. [Obs.]
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My father's care
With curiousness and cost did train me up. --
Massinger.
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2. The state of being curious; exactness of workmanship;
ingenuity of contrivance.
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3. Inquisitiveness; curiosity.
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Incurious
(gcide) | Incurious \In*cu"ri*ous\, a. [L. incuriosus: cf. F. incurieux.
See In- not, and Curious.]
Not curious or inquisitive; without care for or interest in;
inattentive; careless; negligent; heedless.
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Carelessnesses and incurious deportments toward their
children. --Jer. Taylor.
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Incuriously
(gcide) | Incuriously \In*cu"ri*ous*ly\, adv.
In an curious manner.
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Incuriousness
(gcide) | Incuriousness \In*cu"ri*ous*ness\, n.
Unconcernedness; incuriosity.
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Sordid incuriousness and slovenly neglect. --Bp. Hall.
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Overcurious
(gcide) | Overcurious \O"ver*cu"ri*ous\, a.
Too curious.
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Supercurious
(gcide) | Supercurious \Su`per*cu"ri*ous\, a.
Excessively curious or inquisitive. --Evelyn.
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Uncurious
(gcide) | Uncurious \Uncurious\
See curious. |
curious
(wn) | curious
adj 1: 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" [syn: curious, funny, odd,
peculiar, queer, rum, rummy, singular]
2: 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" [ant: incurious]
3: having curiosity aroused; eagerly interested in learning
more; "a trap door that made me curious" |
curiously
(wn) | curiously
adv 1: in a manner differing from the usual or expected; "had a
curiously husky voice"; "he's behaving rather peculiarly"
[syn: curiously, oddly, peculiarly]
2: with curiosity; "the baby looked around curiously" [syn:
curiously, inquisitively, interrogatively] |
curiousness
(wn) | curiousness
n 1: a state of active curiosity [syn: curiousness,
inquisitiveness]
2: the quality of being alien or not native; "the strangeness of
a foreigner" [syn: foreignness, strangeness,
curiousness] [ant: nativeness] |
incurious
(wn) | incurious
adj 1: showing absence of intellectual inquisitiveness or
natural curiosity; "strangely incurious about the cause
of the political upheaval surrounding them" [ant:
curious] |
overcurious
(wn) | overcurious
adj 1: showing excessive curiosity |
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