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curious

/kyoor-ee-uhs/US // ˈkyʊər i əs //UK // (ˈkjʊərɪəs) //

好奇的,好奇,好奇的是,好奇的人

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : eager to learn or know; inquisitive.
    • : prying; meddlesome.
    • : arousing or exciting speculation, interest, or attention through being inexplicable or highly unusual; odd; strange: a curious sort of person; a curious scene.
    • : Archaic. made or prepared skillfully.done with painstaking accuracy or attention to detail: a curious inquiry.careful; fastidious.marked by intricacy or subtlety.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.desiring knowledge, understanding
adj.very odd

Examples

  • It can give you an insight into what people are searching for, interested in, and curious about.

  • Instead, I’m curious how we can have so many different seed data signals in the same year.

  • Although Rachel is curious about Miriam’s spiritual life, especially jealous of the ease Miriam and her family share, it is more in physical ways that they connect.

  • Rivas recalls walking into the venue in Buenos Aires and being greeted by a massive — and curious — crowd of several thousand.

  • Shultz was a policy maven, conservative but curious, patient and determined.

  • Even other men of color considered Revels a curious figure, for Mississippi had never had a large free black population.

  • But the ads are not just intended to remind the Google-curious that Paul exists and is thinking about running for president.

  • As I got better, I also got curious about what happened to other patients like me.

  • I had, for a long time, been curious about the place where all this fantastic stuff was made.

  • He was way too ill to visit the set and all that, but was very curious about the film.

  • At last there appeared some probability of their accomplishing this, after a most curious and truly Mexican fashion.

  • He heard himself saying lightly, though with apparent lack of interest: 'How curious, Lettice, how very odd!

  • This judicial bent of the child is a curious one and often develops a priggish fondness for setting others morally straight.

  • Sebastian Brandt died; counsellor of Strassburg, a lawyer, and author of a curious poem.

  • Something within him wanted to go, something that was perhaps intellectually curious.