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. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Little curious in her clothes. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

How shall we,
If he be curious, work upon his faith? Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Exhibiting care or nicety; artfully constructed; elaborate; wrought with elegance or skill. [ 1913 Webster ]

To devise curious works. Ex. xxxv. 32 [ 1913 Webster ]

His body couched in a curious bed. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Careful or anxious to learn; eager for knowledge; given to research or inquiry; habitually inquisitive; prying; -- sometimes with after or of. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Exciting attention or inquiry; awakening surprise; inviting and rewarding inquisitiveness; not simple or plain; strange; rare. “Acurious tale” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

A multitude of curious analogies. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

Many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore. E. A. Poe. [ 1913 Webster ]

Abstruse investigations in recondite branches of learning or sciense often bring to light curious results. C. J. Smith. [ 1913 Webster ]

Curious arts, magic. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ] Many . . . which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them. Acts xix. 19.

Syn. -- Inquisitive; prying. See Inquisitive. [ 1913 Webster ]

Curiously

adv. In a curious manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

Curiousness

n. 1. Carefulness; painstaking. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

My father's care
With curiousness and cost did train me up. Massinger. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The state of being curious; exactness of workmanship; ingenuity of contrivance. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Inquisitiveness; curiosity. [ 1913 Webster ]

Chinese-English: CC-CEDICT DictionaryCC-CEDICT CN-EN Dictionary

有好奇心

[有好奇心, yǒu hào qí xīn, ㄧㄡˇ ㄏㄠˋ ㄑㄧˊ ㄒㄧㄣ]curious[Add to Longdo]

German-English: TU-Chemnitz DING DictionaryDING DE-EN Dictionary

Schaulustige { m, f }; Schaulustiger | Schaulustige; Schaulustigen { pl }

curious onlooker; by-stander | curious onlookers; rubbernecks [ Am. ][Add to Longdo]

neugierig; schaulustig { adj } | neugieriger | am neugierigsten

curious | more curious | most curious[Add to Longdo]

Japanese-English: EDICT DictionaryEDICT JP-EN Dictionary

変(P);變(oK)

[へん, hen](adj-na, n) (1) strange; odd; peculiar; weird; curious; queer; eccentric; funny; suspicious; fishy; (2) unexpected; (3) change; (4) incident; disturbance; disaster; accident; (n-pref) (5) (See 変ロ短調) flat (music); (P)#3335[Add to Longdo]

奇妙

[きみょう, kimyou](adj-na, n) strange; queer; curious; (P)#5984[Add to Longdo]

珍

[ちん, chin](adj-na, n) rare; curious; strange; (P)#6284[Add to Longdo]

珍しい(P);珍らしい(io)

[めずらしい, mezurashii](adj-i) (1) unusual; rare; curious; (2) new; novel; (3) fine (e.g. gift); (P)#7321[Add to Longdo]

ひょんな

[hyonna](adj-pn) (See 思いがけない) strange; unexpected; (by) chance; unusual; curious[Add to Longdo]

異聞奇譚

[いぶんきたん, ibunkitan](n) strange stories and curious tales[Add to Longdo]

奇体

[きたい, kitai](adj-na, n) strange; queer; curious[Add to Longdo]

奇妙な話だが

[きみょうなはなしだが, kimyounahanashidaga](exp) curiously enough; oddly enough; strange to tell[Add to Longdo]

興味津々;興味津津;興味しんしん

[きょうみしんしん, kyoumishinshin](adj-no, adj-t, adv-to) very interesting; of absorbing interest; having a keen interest (in); being immensely curious (about)[Add to Longdo]

好事

[こうじ;こうず, kouji ; kouzu](n) fortune; good deed; curious[Add to Longdo]

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