English-Thai Dictionary

curious

ADJ อยากรู้อยากเห็น  inquiring prying yak-ru-yak-hen

 

curious

ADJ แปลก  ซึ่ง หายาก  odd strange plaek

 

curiously

ADV อย่าง อยากรู้อยากเห็น  inquiringly yang-yak-ru-yak-hen

 

curiously

ADV แปลก  oddly unusually plaek

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CURIOUS

a.[L., care. See Cure. ] 1. Strongly desirous to see what is novel, or to discover what is unknown; solicitous to see or to know; inquisitive.
Be not curious in unnecessary matters, nor to pry into the concerns of your neighbors.
2. Habitually inquisitive; addicted to research or enquiry; as a man of a curious turn of mind; sometimes followed by after, and sometimes by of.
Curious after things elegant and beautiful; curious of antiquities.
3. Accurate; careful not to mistake; solicitous to be correct.
Men were not curious what syllables or particles they used.
4. Careful; nice; solicitous in selection; difficult to please.
A temperate man is not curious of delicacies.
5. Nice; exact; subtile; made with care.
Both these senses embrace their objects--with a more curious discrimination.
6. Artful; nicely diligent.
Each ornament about her seemly lies, by curious chance, or careless art, composed.
7. Wrought with care and art; elegant; neat; finished; as a curious girdle; curious work Exodus 28:8 and Exodus 35:32.
8. Requiring care and nicety; as curious arts. Acts 19:19.
9. Rigid; severe; particular. [Little used. ]
1 . Rare; singular; a a curious fact.

 

CURIOUSLY

adv. 1. With nice inspection; inquisitively; attentively.
I saw nothing at first, but observing it more curiously, the spots appeared.
2. With nice care and art; exactly; neatly; elegantly. Psalm 139:15.
3. In a singular manner; unusually.

 

CURIOUSNESS

n. 1. Fitness to excite curiosity; exactness of workmanship.
2. Singularity of contrivance.
3. Curiosity.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

CURIOUS

Cu "ri *ous (k "r-s ), a. Etym: [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 Bean &

 

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 picurious after things that were elegant and beatiful 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. Mocaulay.Many a quaint and curiousvolume 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.

 

CURIOUSLY

CURIOUSLY Cu "ri *ous *ly, adv.

 

Defn: In a curious manner.

 

CURIOUSNESS

CURIOUSNESS Cu "ri *ous *ness, n.

 

1. Carefulness; painstaking. [Obs. ] My father's care With curiousness and cost did train me up. Massinger.

 

2. The state of being curious; exactness of workmanship; ingenuity of contrivance.

 

3. Inquisitiveness; curiosity.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

curious

cu ri ous |ˈkyo͝orēəs ˈkjʊriəs | ▶adjective 1 eager to know or learn something: I began to be curious about the whereabouts of the bride and groom | she was curious to know what had happened. • expressing curiosity: a curious stare. 2 strange; unusual: a curious sensation overwhelmed her. DERIVATIVES cu ri ous ly adverb [ sentence adverb ] : curiously, I find snooker riveting, cu ri ous ness noun ORIGIN Middle English: from Old French curios, from Latin curiosus ‘careful, ’ from cura ‘care. ’ Sense 2 dates from the early 18th cent.

 

Oxford Dictionary

curious

curi |ous |ˈkjʊərɪəs | ▶adjective 1 eager to know or learn something: I began to be curious about the whereabouts of the bride and groom | she was curious to know what had happened. • expressing curiosity: a curious stare. 2 strange; unusual: a curious sensation overwhelmed her. • euphemistic (of books ) erotic or pornographic. DERIVATIVES curiously adverb [ sentence adverb ] : curiously, I find snooker riveting, curiousness noun ORIGIN Middle English: from Old French curios, from Latin curiosus ‘careful ’, from cura ‘care ’. Sense 2 dates from the early 18th cent.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

curious

curious adjective 1 she was curious to know what had happened: intrigued, interested, eager to know, dying to know, agog; inquisitive. ANTONYMS uninterested. 2 her curious behavior: strange, odd, peculiar, funny, unusual, bizarre, weird, eccentric, queer, unexpected, unfamiliar, extraordinary, abnormal, out of the ordinary, anomalous, surprising, incongruous, unconventional, offbeat, unorthodox. ANTONYMS ordinary.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

curious

curious adjective 1 she was obviously curious, but too polite to ask questions | the curious stares of her colleagues: inquisitive, intrigued, interested, eager to know, dying to know, burning with curiosity, agog; quizzical, enquiring, searching, probing, querying, questioning, interrogative; perplexed, puzzled, baffled, mystified; informal nosy, nosy-parker, snoopy. ANTONYMS uninterested. 2 her curious behaviour intrigued him: strange, odd, peculiar, funny, unusual, bizarre, weird, eccentric, queer, unexpected, unfamiliar, abnormal, out of the ordinary, atypical, anomalous, untypical, different, out of the way, surprising, incongruous, extraordinary, remarkable, puzzling, mystifying, mysterious, perplexing, baffling, unaccountable, inexplicable, irregular, singular, offbeat, unconventional, unorthodox, outlandish, aberrant, freak, freakish, deviant; uncanny, eerie, unnatural; Brit. out of the common; French outré; Scottish unco; informal off the wall, wacky; Brit. informal rum; N. Amer. informal wacko. ANTONYMS ordinary. CHOOSE THE RIGHT WORD curious, strange, odd, peculiar See strange . These notes show fine distinctions in meaning between closely related synonyms to help you find the best word.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

curious

cu ri ous /kjʊ́ ə riəs /〖care (注意 )ous (深い )〗(名 )curiosity 形容詞 more ～; most ～1 a. 〖be curious about A 〗〈人が 〉A 〈事 人 物 〉について好奇心が強い ; 詮索 （せんさく ）好きな ▸ I am curious about [as to ] what you think of me .あなたが私のことをどう思っているか興味があります (!wh節の前のabout, as toは省略されることがある ) ▸ curious eyes 好奇の目 b. 〖be curious to do 〗〈人が 〉 (しきりに )…したがる (!doはknow, see, hearなど ) ▸ I am curious to know what he is going to say .彼が何を言うつもりなのか知りたい 2 〈物 事が 〉珍しい , 奇妙な , 不可解な , 不思議な ; 〖the ～; 名詞的に; 集合的に 〗変わった人たち (!複数扱い ) ▸ curious creatures 珍しい生き物 ▸ It is curious that he hasn't finished his homework .彼がまだ宿題を終えていないとは不思議だ 3 ｟遠回しに ｠〖名詞 の前で 〗ポルノの, わいせつな 〈本など 〉.4 ｟古 ｠綿密な , 入念な .～ness 名詞

 

curiously

cu ri ous ly /kjʊ́ ə riəsli /→curious 副詞 1 物珍しそうに, 興味ありげに .2 〖通例文頭で; 文修飾 〗奇妙なことに, 不思議にも (!しばしば ～ enough ) .3 〖形容詞 の前で 〗不思議なくらい, ひどく, 妙に .