curiousadj詞源 1/ˈkjʊə.ɹi.əs/

• 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.
  • I was ſo curious likewiſe as to goe to the place, where it is ſaid the great tower of Babel was built, being about halfe a days iourney diſtant; where I ſawe nothing but a high mountaine of earth in the midſt of a plaine where in digging you may finde certaine bricks, whereof it is ſaide the tower is built.
• 2

  Caused by curiosity.

  • But he to ſhifte their curious requeſt, / Gan cauſen, why ſhe could not come in place; [...].
  • Such is the uneven State of human Life: And it afforded me a great many curious Speculations afterwards, when I had a little recovered my first surprise.
• 3

  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.
  • 1485 – Thomas Malory. Le Morte Darthur, Book X, Chapter xxxi, leaf 232v Thenne at the mete cam in Elyas the harper & by cause he was a curyous harper men herd hym synge the same lay that Dynadan had made "Then at the meat came in Eliot the harper, and because he was a curious harper men heard him sing the same lay that Dinadan had made"
• 4

  Interested in entering a romantic or sexual relationship with a specified group.

  • 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.
• 5

  obsoleteCareful, fastidious, particular; (specifically) demanding a high standard of excellence, difficult to satisfy.

  • Honourable even in the curiousest pointes of honour, whereout there can no disgrace nor disperagement come unto her.
  • I am ſo fraught with curious buſineſſe, that / I leaue out ceremony.
• 6

  obsoleteCarefully or artfully constructed; made with great elegance or skill.

  • 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.
  • His wonted ſleepe, vnder a freſh trees ſhade, / All which ſecure, and ſweetly he enjoyes, / Is farre beyond a Princes Delicates: / His Viands ſparkling in a Golden Cup, / His bodie couched in a curious bed, / When Care, Miſtrust, and Treaſon waits on him.

curiousadj詞源 2

• 1

  rarechemistryinorganic-chemistrynatural-sciencesContaining or pertaining to trivalent curium.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• bi-curious