Definition of Curious

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Curious

Difficult to please or satisfy; solicitous to be correct; careful; scrupulous; nice; exact.

Exhibiting care or nicety; artfully constructed; elaborate; wrought with elegance or skill.

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

Exciting attention or inquiry; awakening surprise; inviting and rewarding inquisitiveness; not simple or plain; strange; rare.

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Curious Quotations

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
Albert Einstein

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Mark Twain

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
Walt Disney

When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.
Walt Disney

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.
Oscar Wilde

I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.
Abraham Maslow

Be curious, not judgmental.
Walt Whitman

I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.
Walt Whitman

For nobody is curious, who isn't malevolent.
Plautus

A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.
Oswald Chambers

Curious Translations

curious in Afrikaans is nuuskierig
curious in Danish is nysgerrig
curious in Dutch is typisch, curieus, vreemd
curious in Finnish is kummallinen
curious in Italian is memorabile, curioso
curious in Norwegian is nyskjerrig
curious in Portuguese is curioso
curious in Spanish is curioso
curious in Swedish is underlig, konstig, nyfiken

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