curious

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Tending to ask questions, or to want to explore or investigate

   Tending to ask questions, or to want to explore or investigate; inquisitive; (with a negative connotation) nosy, prying.

   • Young children are naturally curious about the world and everything in it.
2. 2

   Caused by curiosity.

   • But he to ſhifte their curious requeſt, / Gan cauſen, why ſhe could not come in place; [...].
   • Such is the uneven State of human Life: And it afforded me a great many curious Speculations afterwards, when I had a little recovered my first surprise.
   • The doctor heard him, faced around, and stood waiting, a curious expression settling on his harsh, medicinal face as Mr. Button drew near.
3. 3

   Leading one to ask questions about

   Leading one to ask questions about; somewhat odd, out of the ordinary, or unusual.

   • The platypus is a curious creature, with fur like a mammal and a beak like a bird.
   • Abundance of Samphire, and a curious bulboſe Plant, creſted with little Flowers ſtriped with white and Cinnamon colour.
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   1. 4

      Clipping of bi-curious.

      • It's not what I'm used to / Just wanna try you on / I'm curious for you / Caught my attention
   2. 5

      Interested in entering a romantic or sexual relationship with a specified group.

      • On the app I’d ultimately go with, I presented myself truthfully, as a Republican-curious woman tired of the Democrats’ hopelessness and constant pivoting during a highly charged election year.
   3. 6

      Careful, fastidious, particular

      Careful, fastidious, particular; (specifically) demanding a high standard of excellence, difficult to satisfy.

      • Honourable even in the curiousest pointes of honour, whereout there can no disgrace nor disperagement come unto her.
      • I am ſo fraught with curious buſineſſe, that / I leaue out ceremony.
      • [We] never had better fires in England, then in the dry, ſmoaky houſes of Kecoughtan: but departing thence, when we found no houſes we were not curious in any weather to lye three or foure nights together vnder the trees by a fire, [...]
   4. 7

      Carefully or artfully constructed

      Carefully or artfully constructed; made with great elegance or skill.

      • And the curious girdle of the Ephod, which is upon it, ſhall bee of the ſame, according to the worke thereof; euen of gold, of blew, and purple, and ſcarlet, and fine twined linnen.
   5. 8

      Containing or pertaining to trivalent curium.

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