Uttal
US- Okänd accent:
- IPA: /ˈkjʊəɹiəs/
- IPA: /ˈkju.ri.əs/
Ordet hittades på dessa språk:
Definitioner
Adjektiv
- (obsolete) Fastidious, particular; demanding a high standard of excellence, difficult to satisfy.
- Inquisitive; tending to ask questions, investigate, or explore.
- Prompted by curiosity.
- Unusual; odd; out of the ordinary; bizarre.
- (archaic) Exhibiting care or nicety; artfully constructed; elaborate; wrought with elegance or skill.
Exempel
- But departing thence, when we found no houses, we were not curious in any weather, to lie 3 or 4 nights together upon any shore under the trees by a good fire.
- little curious in her clothes
- But he to shift their curious request, / Gan causen, why she could not come in place.
- Captain Edward Carlisle, soldier as he was, martinet as he was, felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, her alluring smile ; he could not tell what this prisoner might do.
- to devise curious works
- his body couched in a curious bed
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