資料來源 : pyDict

好奇的,求知的,古怪的

資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Curious \Cu"ri*ous\ (k?"r?-?s), 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.]

            Little curious in her clothes.        --Fuller.

            How shall we, If he be curious, work upon his faith?
                                                  --Beau. & Fl.

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

            To devise curious works.              --Ex. xxxv. 32

            His body couched in a curious bed.    --Shak.

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

            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.

   4. Exciting attention or inquiry; awakening surprise;
      inviting and rewarding inquisitiveness; not simple or
      plain; strange; rare. ``Acurious tale'' --Shak.

            A multitude of curious analogies.     --Macaulay.

            Many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore.
                                                  --E. A. Poe.

            Abstruse investigations in recondite branches of
            learning or sciense often bring to light curious
            results.                              --C. J. Smith.

   {Curious arts}, magic. [Obs.]

            Many . . . which used curious arts brought their
            books together, and burned them.      --Acts xix.
                                                  19.

   Syn: Inquisitive; prying. See {Inquisitive}.

資料來源 : WordNet®

curious
     adj 1: beyond or deviating from the usual or expected; "a curious
            hybrid accent"; "her speech has a funny twang"; "they
            have some funny ideas about war"; "had an odd name";
            "the peculiar aromatic odor of cloves"; "something
            definitely queer about this town"; "what a rum
            fellow"; "singular behavior" [syn: {funny}, {odd}, {peculiar},
             {queer}, {rum}, {rummy}, {singular}]
     2: eager to investigate and learn or learn more (sometimes
        about others' concerns); "a curious child is a teacher's
        delight"; "a trap door that made me curious"; "curious
        investigators"; "traffic was slowed by curious
        rubberneckers"; "curious about the neighbor's doings"
        [ant: {incurious}]
     3: having curiosity aroused; eagerly interested in learning
        more; "a trap door that made me curious"