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adjective

Curious adj.

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 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."

4.

Exciting attention or inquiry; awakening surprise; inviting and rewarding inquisitiveness; not simple or plain; strange; rare. "Acurious tale" "A multitude of curious analogies." "Many a quaint and curious volume 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."

Synonyms: Inquisitive; prying. See Inquisitive.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Curious" Quotes from Famous Books

... she said to him had still the flavour of adventure. She found herself inclined—and the experience was new—to make an effort for a reward which was problematical and had to be considered in averages, a reward put out in a thin and hesitating hand under a sacerdotal robe, with a curious, concentrated quality and a strange flavour of incense and the air of cold churches. There was also the impression—was it too fantastic—of words carried over a medium, an invisible wire which brought the soul of them and ...

— Hilda - A Story of Calcutta • Sara Jeannette Duncan

... 'we' occasionally acts the part of 'one.' The following sentence presents a curious alternation of 'we' with 'one'—possibly not accidental (George Eliot): 'It's a desperately vexatious thing that, after all one's reflections and quiet determinations, we should be ruled by moods ...

— The Verbalist • Thomas Embly Osmun, (AKA Alfred Ayres)

... of the sounds they had heard, the travelers came upon a troupe of great baboons. It was a curious sight. The males were as big as large dogs, some were sitting sunning themselves on rocks, others were being scratched by the females. Many of these had a baby monkey clinging on their necks, while others were ...

— By Sheer Pluck - A Tale of the Ashanti War • G. A. Henty

... Western incarnations that he display too much delicacy. Those who will read his book may gather from it, beyond the interesting personal and political narrative of which it consists, many useful and curious hints as to the social development of America and of what men the country is truly made. It is a real work—one of value—interesting to all, and very truly one of the monuments of this war and of the scenes ...

— Continental Monthly, Vol. II. July, 1862. No. 1. • Various

... made by Keaonaloa with his ohe was curious, but not soul-filling. We must bear in mind, however, that it was intended only as an ...

— Unwritten Literature of Hawaii - The Sacred Songs of the Hula • Nathaniel Bright Emerson

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