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Definition of Curious
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

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

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

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

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
George Bernard Shaw

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

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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