curious

形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈkjʊə.ɹi.əs/|/ˈkjɔː-/|/ˈkjɵːɹɪjəs/|/ˈkjoː-/    美 /ˈkjʊɹ.i.əs/|/ˈkjɝ.i.əs/|/ˈkjʊ.ɹəs/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Tending to ask questions, or to want to explore or investigate; inquisitive; (with a negative connotation) nosy, prying.
    — Young children are naturally curious about the world and everything in it.
  2. Containing or pertaining to trivalent curium. not-comparable,rare
  3. Caused by curiosity.
    — But he to ſhifte their curious requeſt, / Gan cauſen, why ſhe could not come in place; [...].
  4. Leading one to ask questions about; somewhat odd, out of the ordinary, or unusual.
    — The platypus is a curious creature, with fur like a mammal and a beak like a bird.
  5. Clipping of bi-curious. abbreviation,alt-of,clipping
    — It's not what I'm used to / Just wanna try you on / I'm curious for you / Caught my attention
  6. Interested in entering a romantic or sexual relationship with a specified group. in-compounds
    — On the app I’d ultimately go with, I presented myself truthfully, as a Republican-curious woman tired of the Democrats’ hopelessness and constant pivoting during a highly charged election year.
  7. Careful, fastidious, particular; (specifically) demanding a high standard of excellence, difficult to satisfy. obsolete
    — Honourable even in the curiousest pointes of honour, whereout there can no disgrace nor disperagement come unto her.
    The New Arcadia
  8. Carefully or artfully constructed; made with great elegance or skill. obsolete
    — To honour which a worlde of people reſorted unto the Lord de Bolognas caſtle; for the intertainment of whiche gueſtes, there neither wanted coſtly cheare, curious ſhewes, or pleaſaunt deviſes, that eyther money, friendſhip or cunning might compaſſe.

词形变化

more curious comparative curiouser comparative most curious superlative curiousest superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
bi-curious bicurious curiously curiousness epicurious gay curious homocurious indy-curious just curious noncurious odd and curious overcurious pancurious polycurious queerious semicurious sober-curious supercurious trans-curious uncurious uncuriously uncuriousness veg-curious
相关词
curio curiosity curiosity killed the cat incurious incuriously incuriousness

词源

词源 1
From Middle English curious, from Old French curius, from Latin cūriōsus. The English word is cognate with Italian curioso, Occitan curios, Portuguese curioso, and Spanish curioso.
词源 2
Etymology tree
English curi(um)
Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *h₃édosder.?
Proto-Italic *-ōtsos or *-otsos
Latin -ōsus
Old French -usbor.
Middle English -ous
English -ous
English curious
From curi(um) + -ous.
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