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| curious | (คิว'เรียส) adj. ซึ่งอยากรู้อยากเห็น, หายาก, แปลก, ผิดธรรมดา, น่าสนใจ, ประณีต, See also: curiousness n. ดูcurious, Syn. nosy |
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| curious | (adj) อยากรู้อยากเห็น, สอดรู้สอดเห็น, แปลก, ประหลาด |
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| curiousity | (n) ความอยากรู้อยากเห็น, ของหายาก, ของลายคราม, ลักษณะที่แปลกและน่ารู้น่าสนใจ, ความผิดธรรมดา, ความแปลก, คนหรือปรากฏการณ์แปลกๆ, ความอยากรู้ |
| | | อยากรู้อยากเห็น | (adj) curious, Syn. อยากรู้, Example: ข้าพเจ้าเป็นคนอยากรู้อยากเห็น ไม่ว่าจะเป็นเรื่องอะไรก็ตาม |
| อยากรู้ | [yāk rū] (v) EN: eager to know ; be curious ; be studious FR: être curieux | อยากรู้อยากเห็น | [yāk rū yāk hen] (v) EN: be curious ; be anxious to know ; be inquisitive | อยากรู้อยากเห็น | [yāk rū yāk hen] (adj) EN: curious FR: curieux ; indiscret |
| | | | | 変(P);變(oK) | [へん, hen] (adj-na, n) (1) strange; odd; peculiar; weird; curious; queer; eccentric; funny; suspicious; fishy; (2) unexpected; (3) change; (4) incident; disturbance; disaster; accident; (n-pref) (5) (See 変ロ短調) flat (music); (P) #3,335 [Add to Longdo] | 奇妙 | [きみょう, kimyou] (adj-na, n) strange; queer; curious; (P) #5,984 [Add to Longdo] | 珍 | [ちん, chin] (adj-na, n) rare; curious; strange; (P) #6,284 [Add to Longdo] | 珍しい(P);珍らしい(io) | [めずらしい, mezurashii] (adj-i) (1) unusual; rare; curious; (2) new; novel; (3) fine (e.g. gift); (P) #7,321 [Add to Longdo] | ひょんな | [hyonna] (adj-pn) (See 思いがけない) strange; unexpected; (by) chance; unusual; curious [Add to Longdo] | 異聞奇譚 | [いぶんきたん, ibunkitan] (n) strange stories and curious tales [Add to Longdo] | 奇体 | [きたい, kitai] (adj-na, n) strange; queer; curious [Add to Longdo] | 奇妙な話だが | [きみょうなはなしだが, kimyounahanashidaga] (exp) curiously enough; oddly enough; strange to tell [Add to Longdo] | 興味津々;興味津津;興味しんしん | [きょうみしんしん, kyoumishinshin] (adj-no, adj-t, adv-to) very interesting; of absorbing interest; having a keen interest (in); being immensely curious (about) [Add to Longdo] | 好事 | [こうじ;こうず, kouji ; kouzu] (n) fortune; good deed; curious [Add to Longdo] |
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
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.]
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Little curious in her clothes. --Fuller.
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How shall we,
If he be curious, work upon his faith? --Beau. & Fl.
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2. Exhibiting care or nicety; artfully constructed;
elaborate; wrought with elegance or skill.
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To devise curious works. --Ex. xxxv. 32
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His body couched in a curious bed. --Shak.
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3. Careful or anxious to learn; eager for knowledge; given to
research or inquiry; habitually inquisitive; prying; --
sometimes with after or of.
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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.
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4. Exciting attention or inquiry; awakening surprise;
inviting and rewarding inquisitiveness; not simple or
plain; strange; rare. "Acurious tale" --Shak.
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A multitude of curious analogies. --Macaulay.
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Many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore.
--E. A. Poe.
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Abstruse investigations in recondite branches of
learning or sciense often bring to light curious
results. --C. J. Smith.
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{Curious arts}, magic. [Obs.]
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Many . . . which used curious arts brought their
books together, and burned them. --Acts xix.
19.
Syn: Inquisitive; prying. See {Inquisitive}.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
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: {curious}, {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"
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