curious

  • 71curious — a. 1. Inquisitive, scrutinizing, prying, peering. 2. Rare, singular, strange, unusual, unique, extraordinary, queer, out of the way. 3. Elegant, neat, nice, finished, skilful, cunning, well wrought …

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  • 72curious — adj 1. inquisitive, inquisitorial, inquiring, investigative, investigatory, investigating; interrogative, interrogatory, interrogating, querying, questioning, searching, scrutinizing, studying, Rare. zetetic, Rare. percontatorial. 2. meddlesome,… …

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  • 73curious — cu·ri·ous …

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  • 74curious — cu•ri•ous [[t]ˈkyʊər i əs[/t]] adj. 1) eager to learn or know 2) taking an undue interest in others affairs; prying 3) arousing attention or interest through being unusual or hard to explain; odd; strange; novel 4) archaic a) made or done… …

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  • 75curious — /ˈkjuriəs / (say kyoohreeuhs) adjective 1. desirous of learning or knowing; inquisitive. 2. prying; meddlesome. 3. marked by special care or pains, as an inquiry or investigation. 4. exciting attention or interest because of strangeness or… …

  • 76curious —   1. Strange. Ano ē, kupanaha, kupaianaha, ho onīele.   2. Inquisitive. Nīele …

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  • 77curious — see CURE …

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  • 78curious — adj. 1 eager to learn; inquisitive. 2 strange, surprising, odd. 3 euphem. (of books etc.) erotic, pornographic. Derivatives: curiously adv. curiousness n. Etymology: ME f. OF curios f. L curiosus careful f. cura care …

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  • 79Curious arts —    (Acts 19:19), magical arts; jugglery practised by the Ephesian conjurers. Ephesus was noted for its wizard and the Ephesian spells; i.e., charms or scraps of parchment written over with certain formula, which were worn as a safeguard against… …

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  • 80Curious book — Книга курьёзов …

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