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curious

Speech parts

1. curious - Adjective

2. curious - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

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.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Examples

a curious child is a teacher's delight Source: Internet

a trap door that made me curious Source: Internet

curious investigators Source: Internet

traffic was slowed by curious rubberneckers Source: Internet

curious about the neighbor's doings Source: Internet

a curious hybrid accent Source: Internet

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