curiously

adv
/ˈkjʊə.ɹi.əs.li/UK/ˈkjʊɹ.i.əs.li/US

Etymology

From Middle English curiusly, curyously, curiosly, curiouseliche, curyouslyche, equivalent to curious + -ly.

  1. inherited from curiusly

Definitions

  1. In a curious manner

    In a curious manner; with curiosity; inquisitively.

    • The children peeped curiously into the attic room.
  2. Oddly

    Oddly; in a strange or unexpected way.

    • Curiously, when I arrived home, the front door was standing ajar.
    • Performing a curiously melancholy, undulating developpe, the dancers point their legs at each other like accusing fingers.
    • “The Life of a Showgirl” doesn’t quite fulfill this prophecy — or, rather, it delivers only technically. It is a work of hyperprofessional songcraft and production, but its emotional texture is curiously flat and joyless.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at curiously. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at curiously. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at curiously

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA