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Definition: Curious |
CuriousAdjective1. 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". 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". 3. Having curiosity aroused; eagerly interested in learning more; "a trap door that made me curious". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "curious" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
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Tips from 1870 | Usage: Curious. Curious means inquisitive, rare. In the sense of strange or remarkable, its use should be guarded. Source: Slips of Speech. |
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Synonyms: CuriousSynonyms: funny (adj), odd (adj), peculiar (adj), queer (adj), rum (adj), rummy (adj), singular (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: incurious (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Beauty | Artistic, artistical; aesthetic; picturesque, pictorial; fait a peindre; well-composed, well grouped, well varied; curious. |
Curiosity | Verb: be curious; Adjective: take an interest in, stare, gape; prick up the ears, see sights, lionize; pry; nose; rubberneck. |
Adjective: curious, inquisitive, burning with curiosity, overcurious; inquiring; prying, snoopy, nosy, peering; prurient; inquisitorial, inquisitory; curious as a cat; agape; (expectant). | |
Desire | Adjective: desirous; desiring; Verb: inclined; (willing); partial to; fain, wishful, optative; anxious, wistful, curious; at a loss for, sedulous, solicitous. craving, hungry, sharp-set, peckish, ravening, with an empty stomach, esurient, lickerish, thirsty, athirst, parched with thirst, pinched with hunger, famished, dry, drouthy; hungry as a hunter, hungry as a hawk, hungry as a horse, hungry as a church mouse, hungry as a bear. |
Expectation | Adjective: expectant; expecting; Verb: in expectation; Noun: on the watch; (vigilant); open-eyed, open-mouthed, in wide-eyed anticipation; agape, gaping, all agog; on tenterhooks, on tiptoe, on the tiptoe of expectation; aux aguets; ready; curious; looking forward to. |
Prediction | The following terms, expressive of different forms of divination, have been collected from various sources,The following terms, expressive of different forms of divination, have been collected from various sources, and are here given as a curious illustration of bygone superstitions:- |
Truth | Exact, accurate, definite, precise, well-defined, just, just so, so; strict, severe; close; (similar); literal; rigid, rigorous; scrupulous; (conscientious); religiously exact, punctual, mathematical, scientific; faithful, constant, unerring; curious, particular, nice, delicate, fine; clean-cut, clear-cut. |
Unconformity | Unusual, unaccustomed, uncustomary, unwonted, uncommon; rare, curious, odd, extraordinary, out of the ordinary; strange, monstrous; wonderful; unexpected, unaccountable; outre, out of the way, remarkable, noteworthy; queer, quaint, nondescript, none such, sui generis; unfashionable; fantastic, grotesque, bizarre; outlandish, exotic, tombe des nues, preternatural; denaturalized. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | Everything? You are far too eager and curious for a hobbit (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring; writing credit: Frances Walsh) Not that I'm ungrateful to providence for bringing you back, but I have to confess - I'm just a little bit curious as to how you managed to wind up with them (Wild Wild West; writing credit: Jim Thomas; John Thomas) I'm curious about that myself (Pulp Fiction; writing credit: Quentin Tarantino; Roger Avary) Oh, by the way, Newman, I'm just curious, when you booked the hotel, did you book it for the millennium new year (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt) Sure, I'm flattered, maybe even a little curious, but the answer is no (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) | |
Lyrics | In our lives I will always have your back and be curious about you about your (Unsent; performing artist: Alanis Morissette) Curious when the day will come (Choose; performing artist: Color Me Badd) Ask if you curious to know what I like, man (What'Chu Like; performing artist: Da Brat) | |
Clever | It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare. (references; author: Mark Twain) | |
Movie/TV Titles | A Warning to the Curious (1972) I Am Curious Tahiti (1970) The Curious Female (1969) Curious Contests (1950) I'm Just Curious (1944) | |
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 | Yakan Moro cargadore curious about theodolite He was surprised to find an inverted image. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Close up of a diver after a coral is wired into place. A curious wrasse, in the foreground, watches the diver. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | Detail "Of the curious texture of Sea-weeds." In: "Micrographia, or, Some physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses....", by Robert Hooke. 1667. Call Number QH271 .H66 1667 Scheme IX. Figure 3. P. 93. Credit: Treasures of the Library. |  | On the heights of the crater of Sete Cidades (Portuguese for "Seven Cities" referring to curious rock formations on the peak) . Left to right: L. Tinayre; A. Ranc; Rafael de Buen; Dr. Louet; Cogumbreiro; J. Richard. H. Bouree is in the background photographing the wonders of the crater. Plate IV, print 24. In: "Results of the Scientific Campaigns of the Prince of Monaco." Vol. 89. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
 | Doctor. "See strange figures, curious fancies, hey?..." / Gray Parker. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Lithograph by Currier & Ives, New York, providing a curious (and quite inaccurate) view of the action off Fort Pillow in which the Confederate River Defense Fleet, under Captain James E. Montgomery, attacked Federal gunboats. The print identifies the following ships (from left to right): CSS "Mallory" (a non-existent vessel, shown sinking); CSS Louisiana (an ironclad that had already been destroyed by this time); USS Cincinnati; USS Benton; USS Cairo; USS Carondelet; USS Saint Louis; and USS Conestoga. Credit: NAVY. |
 | View looking aft from high on the ship's island. Taken at Sasebo, Japan, 19 October 1945. U.S. Army soldiers of the 32nd Division are on the flight deck. Note the fore-and-aft flight deck planking; curious device on the landing signal platform; Type 3 radar antenna on the mainmast and radio-direction-finder "loop" in the foreground. Several HA-201 class submarines are on the beach in the distance. That directly off Junyo's stern is HA-230. Credit: NAVY. |  | Inherited ideas are curious things. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | I'm not a bit curious but I'd like to peep into that book. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Curious column and Ching-men (Great Bright) Gate between gates of Imperial and Forbidden cities, Peking, China. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Curious horse" by Jens Kressler Commentary: "Dannenreich, germany 092003." | "Curious self image" by Filip Schneider Commentary: "I see you on the other side." |
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 | Amusing; arbitrary; capricious; chancy; chimerical; comical; curious; dicey; droll; eccentric; erratic; fanciful; fantastic; flaky; freakish; funny; quaint; unertain; wagish; playful; animated; blithe; bouncy; cheerful; cheery; effervescent; elastic; fanc. |
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Francis Bacon | The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body. |
Joseph De Maistre | It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them. |
Oscar Wilde | Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed. |
| Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attraction of others. | |
Thomas Paine | Calumny is a vice of curious constitution; trying to kill it keeps it alive;leave it to itself and it will die a natural death. |
Thomas Traherne | Certainly Adam in Paradise had not more sweet and curious apprehensions of the world, than I when I was a child. |
V. S. Pritchett | Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere. |
Walt Whitman | Be curious, not judgmental. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Through the Looking-Glass | Carroll, Lewis | For some minutes Alice stood without speaking, looking out in all directions over the country and a most curious country it was. |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at the bottom |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The installation being completed, the town was curious to see its bishop at work |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | He saw her approach him in a lull of the talk and beg him to sing one of his curious songs |
The Picture of Dorian Gray | Oscar Wilde | Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious; both are disappointed |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Casy and Uncle John turned eyes expressionlessly on him and looked at him as though he were a curious talking bush |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | To satisfy my curious reader, it may be sufficient to describe Lorbrulgrud |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | We make curious mistakes sometimes |
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Health | In the case of duodenal ulcer, it is curious that in some studies the organism is more often present in the antrum than in the duodenum, where the ulcer is found. (references) | |
Do you have the mumps? No! People with mumps have a very different condition, even though both involve swelling of the sides of your face. Some people who ask questions are well-meaning, some are curious, and some are just plain rude. You don't have to answer if you don't want to. You can just ignore the question. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Pakistan | Reports of intimidation, heavy-handed surveillance, and legal action to quiet the unduly curious or nondeferential reporter were common in the past, but these reports have declined significantly since the coup. (references) |
Travel | Cote D'ivoire | Although you may be curious, large gatherings of people and political demonstrations can be volatile in a developing democracy like Côte d'Ivoire. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | LORE, n. Learning -- particularly that sort which is not derived from a regular course of instruction but comes of the reading of occult books, or by nature. This latter is commonly designated as folk-lore and embraces popularly myths and superstitions. In Baring-Gould's Curious Myths of the Middle Ages the reader will find many of these traced backward, through various people son converging lines, toward a common origin in remote antiquity. Among these are the fables of "Teddy the Giant Killer," "The Sleeping John Sharp Williams," "Little Red Riding Hood and the Sugar Trust," "Beauty and the Brisbane," "The Seven Aldermen of Ephesus," "Rip Van Fairbanks," and so forth. The fable with Goethe so affectingly relates under the title of "The Erl- King" was known two thousand years ago in Greece as "The Demos and the Infant Industry." One of the most general and ancient of these myths is that Arabian tale of "Ali Baba and the Forty Rockefellers." |
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| "Curious" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 98.87% of the time. "Curious" is used about 2,203 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 98.87% | 2,178 | 4,021 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.13% | 25 | 69,787 |
| Total | 100.00% | 2,203 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "curious": a curious inquiry ♦ be curious ♦ become curious ♦ curious about ♦ Curious arts ♦ curious as a cat ♦ curious person ♦ curious stare ♦ curious thing ♦ it is most curious ♦ make curious. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "curious": curious-looking, curious-making, curious-minded. | |
Ending with "curious": ever-curious. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "curious"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | nuuskierig (agog, inquisitive). (various references) | |
Albanian | kureshtar (inquiring, inquisitive, inquisitorial, noser, nosey, nosy, pry, staring, whimsical), i rrallë (far between, infrequent, out of the way, rare, scarce, singular, sparse, stray, thin, uncommon, unwonted), i çuditshëm (bizarre, cranky, dark, eccentric, electric, erratic, extraordinary, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, frabjous, freak, freakish, funny, grotesque, kinky, odd, oddish, off beat, outlandish, peculiar, pixilated, puzzling, quaint, queer, quizzical, rummy, strange, surprising, uncanny, unco, unnatural, unusual, viewy, way out, weird, whimsical). (various references) | |
Arabic | فضولي (busy, busybody, inquisitive, intrusive, meddlesome, nosy, obtrusive, officious, prying), محب للاطلاع, غريب الأطوار (capricious, crackpot, cranky, eccentric, nutty, odd, off beat, peculiar, queer, weird, weirdo, whimsical), طريف (exquisite, facetious, quaint), شخص غريب الأطوار (codger, crack, eccentric, erratic, quiz), بذئ (abusive, blue, broad, salacious, saucy, scurrilous, smutty, spicy). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | куриозен, любознателен (inquiring, inquisitive, nosey, nosy), любопитен (inquisitive, intriguing, prying), прецизен (accurate, businesslike, exact, pinpoint, precision, refined, sensitive, smart). (various references) | |
Chinese | 好奇 (inquisitive). (various references) | |
Czech | zvláštní (extra, extraordinary, funny, individual, intriguing, odd, outlandish, particular, peculiar, quaint, queer, singular, special, strange, unique, weird), zvìdavý (inquisitive, nosey, nosy), zvědavý, podivný (eldritch, freak, peculiar, quaint, queer, rum, strange, utter, weird), kuriózní (quaint, unusual), divný (dicky, odd, strange). (various references) | |
Danish | nysgerrig (agog, inquisitive). (various references) | |
Dutch | vreemd (alien, foreign, interesting, odd, peculiar, quaint, strange), typisch (characteristic, interesting, quaint, typical), curieus (interesting, quaint). (various references) | |
Esperanto | scivola (inquisitive), kurioza (interesting, quaint). (various references) | |
Faeroese | sjáldsamur (interesting, precious, quaint, rare), løgin (comic, comical, funny, interesting, odd, peculiar, quaint, strange), forvitin (agog, inquisitive). (various references) | |
Farsi | نادر (Infrequent, Rare, Scarce, Uncommon), کنجکاو (Prowler), غریب (Eccentric, Extravagant, Immigrant, Lonely, Nostalgic, Romantic, Singular, Stranger, Uncanny, Unco, Unheard, Unmoral, Unusual, Weird, Whimsical, Wonder). (various references) | |
Finnish | kummallinen (interesting, odd, peculiar, quaint, queer, strange). (various references) | |
French | curieux, singulier. (various references) | |
German | Neugierig (agog, inquisitive, inquisitively, inquisitorial, longing to know, nosey, nosily, nosy, prying, pryingly, snoopy), Merkwürdig (curiously, extraordinary, interesting, odd, peculiar, quaint, queer, remarkable, strange, unlikely), seltsam (bizarre, curiously, extraordinary, fancy, foreign, interesting, odd, outlandish, outlandishness, peculiar, peculiarly, quaint, queer, queerly, strange, strangely, unaccountable, weird, whimsical), kurios (interesting, odd, peculiar, quaint, strange), gespannt (agog, anxious, anxiously, close, eager, eagerly, fancy, inquisitive, rapt, strained, taut, tautly, tense, tensely, tensly). (various references) | |
Greek | περίεργοσ (inquisitive, nosey, nosy, rubberneck), περίεργος (funny, inquisitiv, odd, out of place, strange), παράξενοσ (bizarre, codger, crotchety, eerie, freakish, funny, grotesque, outlandish, peculiar, quaint, queer, quizzical, rum, strange), αδιάκριτοσ (indiscreet, indistinct, presuming, snooper). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מוזר (peculiar, quaint, queer, strange), מסוקרן (inquisitive), תאבדע (inquisitive), סקרן (inquisitive), סקרני (inquisitive, prying). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kíváncsi (agog, have itching ears, inquisitive, nosey, nosy). (various references) | |
Indonesian | ingin tahu (inquistive). (various references) | |
Italian | curioso (agog, inquiring, inquisitive, inquisitorial, nosey, nosy, peculiar, pry, quaint, queer, rummy, sightseeing, snoopy). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 奇妙 (queer, strange). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | きたい (anticipation, danger, distress, expectation, fuselage, gas, hope, jeopardy, queer, rare, strange, strange or odd posture or figure, uncommon, vapour), きみょう (queer, strange), こうず (cadastral map, composition, fortune, good deed, likes and dislikes, map of a harbor), こうじ (affairs after one's death, alley, bait, construction work, decoy, edict, fortune, future affairs, good deed, government business, higher-order-, lane, leaven, lure, malt, meta-, mould used to make sake, mouth and ear, public announcement, yeast), ものめずらしい, ちんき (novel, rare, strange), ちん (first person pronoun used by royalty, Japanese spaniel, Our, Pekinese, rare, strange, We). (various references) | |
Korean | 흥미로운. (various references) | |
Norwegian | nyskjerrig (inquisitive). (various references) | |
Papiamen | kaweta (agog, inquisitive). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | uriouscay.(various references) | |
Polish | zaciekawiony (agog, inquisitive). (various references) | |
Portuguese | curioso (agog, amateur, droll, fancier, inquiring, inquisitive, novel, odd, strange). (various references) | |
Romanian | curios (agog, curiosity-monger, inquisitive, meddler, odd, particular, paul pry, peculiar, prying, queer, quidnunc, rare, rum, strange, uncommon), ciudat (cranky, droll, eccentric, extraordinary, extravagant, fanciful, fancy, freakish, funny, intriguing, kinky, odd, out of the way, outlandish, particular, peculiar, peculiarly, quaint, queer, rum, rummy, singular, strange, strangely, uncouth, unusual, weird, whimsical), cercetãtor (curiously, examiner, explorer, inquisitively, investigator, peering, researcher, scout, searching, searchingly, student), meticulos (carefully, meticulous, meticulously, scrupulous), intrigat (mystified), atent (advertent, alert, amiable, attentive, attentively, careful, carefully, close, closely, complaisant, considerate, courteous, deliberately, delicate, heedful, intent, jealous, listening, mindfully, nice, observant, observantly, painstaking, regardful, searching, tender, watchful), afectat (affected, affectedly, Arty, demure, demurely, euphuistic, far fetched, finical, finicking, gushing, highfalutin, highfaluting, high-flown, lackadaisical, La-di-da, mannered, miminy-piminy, mincing, namby-pamby, niminy-piminy, preciously, pretty, primly, recherche, scenic, self conscious, stilted, studied, swollen, theatrical). (various references) | |
Russian | странный (bizarre, exotic, freakish, freaky, funny, kinky, left-field, odd, oddish, off-the wall, peculiar, phoney, queer, rummy, strange, unaccountable, unco, vagarious, weird), любознательный (inquiring, inquisitive), любопытный (newsy, nosey, nosy, pry), любопытно любопытный. (various references) | |
Scottish | deismireach. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | znatiželjan, radoznao (inquisitive), ljubopitljiv (inquisitive, prying). (various references) | |
Spanish | curioso (agog, inquisitive, inquisitorial, interested, intriguing, nosey, prying, quizzical, snooping, snoopy, staring). (various references) | |
Swedish | underlig (erratic, freakish, funny, funny-looking, odd, oddish, peculiar, queer, rum, strange, weird), nyfiken (agog, inquisitive, nosey), konstig (funny, intricate, odd, queer, strange, weird). (various references) | |
Turkish | tuhaf (antic, bizarre, comical, cranky, droll, erratic, flaky, funnily, funny, funny peculiar, laughable, odd, offbeat, peculiar, peregrine, queer, quizzical, rum, rummy, screwball, screwy, singular, splay, strange, twee, unaccustomed, uncouth, unusual, weird, whimsical), meraklı (addict, addicted, aficionado, amateur, buff, bug, curious person, devotee, fancier, freak, given to, hipped, hipped on, hound, inquiring, inquisitive, inquisitorial, interested, keen, keen on, lover, nosey, nosy, prying, quidnunc, quizzical, rubberneck, snoop, Snoopy, splenetic), ilginç (absorbing, amazing, engrossing, exciting, far out, fastmoving, gripping, interesting, juicy, kooky, picturesque, quaint, quirky, taking), ilgili (about, anent, companion, concerned, connected, germane, in regard to, interested, involved, pertinent, related, relative), garip (awkward, bizarre, codger, comical, cranky, crotchety, droll, eccentric, exotic, fanciful, fancy, fantastic, fantastical, far out, freak, freakish, funny, funny peculiar, grotesque, kinky, odd, out of the way, outlandish, poor, queer, quizzical, rum, rummy, screwball, screwy, strange, weirdo, whimsical), acayip (antic, bizarre, bughouse, comical, comically, crotchety, droll, exotic, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, flaky, freak, freakish, grotesque, incongruous, kinky, kooky, novel, odd, out of the way, outlandish, peculiar, quaint, queer, quirky, quizzical, rum, rummy, screwball, singular, some, splendiferous, strange, uncanny, unco, unusual, weird). (various references) | |
Turkmen | bilesigeliji (prying). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | цікавий (amusing, entertaining, interesting, newsworthy, nosey, nosy, nutty, pry, visitable), курйозний, витончений (airy, attic, bijou, choice, dainty, delicate, elegant, fastidious, fine, lepid, nice, rarefied, refined, slender, slinky, subtile, subtle, super, twee, zing), майстерний (bijou, daedal, dedal, dexterous, handicraft, masterful, masterly, natty, neat-handed, shrewd, skilful, skillful, technical, workmanlike), допитливий (inquiring, inquisitive, investigative, investigatory, pry, prying, searching), дивний (amazing, astonishing, astounding, bizarre, capricious, freakish, odd, oddball, oddish, offbeat, original, out of the way, outlandish, quaint, queer, rum, rummy, strange, unaccountable, weird, wonderful, wondrous). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | thọc mạch kỳ lạ, muốn tìm biết tò mò, kỳ dị (arabesque, baroque, bizarre, singular, strange, uncommon, weird, whimsical), hiếu kỳ, ham biết. (various references) | |
Welsh | cywrain (skillful), chwilgar (inquisitive), chwilfrydig (inquisitive), holgar (inquisitive). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | curiosa, curiosae, curiose, curiosius, curiosus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Acts Chapter 19, Verse 19 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Ikanoi de twn ta perierga praxantwn sunenegkanteV taV biblouV katekaion enwpion pantwn kai suneyhfisan taV timaV autwn kai euron arguriou muriadaV pente |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Multi autem ex his qui fuerant curiosa sectati contulerunt libros et conbuserunt coram omnibus et conputatis pretiis illorum invenerunt pecuniam denariorum quinquaginta milium |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And manye of them that sueden curiouse thingis, brouyten togidere bookis, and brenneden hem bifor alle men; and whanne the prices of tho weren acountid, thei founden monei of fifti thousynd pens; |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Many of the which vsed curious craftes brought their bokes and burned the before all men and they counted the price of the and foude it fifty thousande silverlynges. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Many also of them who used curious arts, brought their books together, and burned them before all men; and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And a great number of those who were experts in strange arts took their books and put them on the fire in front of everyone: and when the books were valued they came to fifty thousand bits of silver. |
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| Language | Acts Chapter 19, Verse 19 |
| Albanian | Shumë nga ata që ishin marrë me magji i sollën librat dhe i dogjën përpara të gjithëve; dhe, mbasi e llogaritën çmimin e tyre, gjetën se ishin pesëdhjetë mijë pjesë argjendi. |
| Cebuano | Ug daghan sa mga naghimog mga pagpanglamat kanhi, mipundok sa ilang mga basahon ug kini ilang gisunog sa atubangan sa tanan; ug ilang gikuwenta ang bili niining tanan ug ilang nasuta nga kini mikabat sa kalim-an ka libo ka mga salapi. |
| Croatian | I podosta onih koji su se bavili praznovjerjem donosili su knjige i spaljivali ih pred svima. Procijeniše ih te naðoše da vrijede pedeset tisuæa srebrnjaka. |
| Danish | Men mange af dem, som havde drevet Trolddom, bare deres Bøger sammen og opbrændte dem for alles Øjne; og man beregnede deres Værdi og fandt dem halvtredsindstyve Tusinde Sølvpenge værd. |
| Dutch | Velen ook dergenen, die ijdele kunsten gepleegd hadden, brachten de boeken bijeen, en verbrandden ze in aller tegenwoordigheid; en berekenden de waarde derzelve, en bevonden vijftig duizend zilveren penningen. |
| Finnish | Ja useat niistä, jotka olivat taikuutta harjoittaneet, kantoivat kirjansa kokoon ja polttivat ne kaikkien nähden; ja kun niiden arvo laskettiin yhteen, huomattiin sen olevan viisikymmentä tuhatta hopearahaa. |
| French | Et un certain nombre de ceux qui avaient exercé les arts magiques, ayant apporté leurs livres, les brûlèrent devant tout le monde: on en estima la valeur à cinquante mille pièces d`argent. |
| German | Viele aber, die da vorwitzige Kunst getrieben hatten, brachten die Bücher zusammen und verbrannten sie öffentlich und überrechneten, was sie wert waren, und fanden des Geldes fünfzigtausend Groschen. |
| Hungarian | Sokan pedig azok közül, kik ördögi mesterségeket gyakoroltak, könyveiket összehordva, mindeneknek láttára megégetik vala. És összeszámlálák azoknak árát, és találák ötvenezer ezüstpénznek. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Dan mereka yang biasa menjalankan ilmu guna-guna, mengumpulkan buku-buku mereka dan membakarnya di hadapan orang banyak. Harga buku-buku itu kalau dijumlahkan semuanya ada kira-kira lima puluh ribu uang perak. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Bahkan, beberapa banyak orang yang sudah mengamalkan segala hikmat yang ganjil itu menghimpunkan sekalian pestaka, lalu dibakar di hadapan orang sekalian; dan dijumlahkan harganya sekira-kira lima puluh ribu keping perak. |
| Italian | e un numero considerevole di persone che avevano esercitato le arti magiche portavano i propri libri e li bruciavano alla vista di tutti. Ne fu calcolato il valore complessivo e trovarono che era di cinquantamila dramme d'argento. |
| Maori | He tokomaha ano o te hunga i mahi i nga mahi tinihanga, i huihui i a ratou pukapuka, a tahuna ana i te aroaro o te katoa: a ka taua nga utu o aua pukapuka, ka kitea e rima tekau mano hiriwa. |
| Norwegian | Og en stor hop av dem som hadde drevet med utillatelige kunster, bar sine bøker sammen og brente dem op for alles øine; og de regnet ut deres verdi og fant at den var femti tusen sølvpenninger. |
| Portuguese | Muitos também dos que tinham praticado artes mágicas ajuntaram os seus livros e os queimaram na presença de todos; e, calculando o valor deles, acharam que montava a cinqüenta mil moedas de prata. |
| Rumanian | Wi unii din cei ce fqcuserq vrqjitorii, wi-au adus cqryile, wi le-au ars, knaintea tuturor: preyul lor s`a socotit la cincizeci de mii de arginyi. |
| Swahili | Wengine waliokuwa wameshughulikia mambo ya uchawi hapo awali, walikusanya vitabu vyao, wakavichoma mbele ya wote. Walikisia gharama ya vitabu hivyo, wakaona yafikia vipande vya fedha elfu hamsini. |
| Swedish | Och ganska många av dem som hade övat vidskepliga konster samlade ihop sina böcker och brände upp dem i allas åsyn. Och när man räknade tillsammans vad böckerna voro värda, fann man att värdet uppgick till femtio tusen silverpenningar*. |
| Uma | Wori' -ra to ria pake' -ra mpokeni buku-buku pake' -ra, rarumpu pai' rasuwe hi mata ntodea. Oli buku pake' -ra tohe'e ane rarumpu, ria nte lima mpulu' ncobu doi pera'. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "curious": curiouser, curiousest, curiously, curiousness, curiousnesses. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "curious": incurious, uncurious. (additional references) | |
Words containing "curious": incuriously, incuriousness, incuriousnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Curious" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: auricomus, circinus, cirius, Coiruisk, corioos, coronopus, courious, cuius, cupious, curcinus, cureious, Curieuse, curioso, curiosus, curius, curous, currious, cursious, cursitors, curtious, cutious, Cyriacus, Durieux, ecurious, kurious, purious, surious. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "curious" (pronounced kyuh"rēus) |
| 6 | -y uh" r ē u s | furious, spurious. |
| 5 | -uh" r ē u s | injurious. |
| 4 | -r ē u s | deleterious, delirious, denarius, glorious, gregarious, hilarious, illustrious, imperious, industrious, inglorious, laborious, lugubrious, meritorious, mysterious, nefarious, notorious, pancreas, penurious, precarious, Sartorius, serious, various, vicarious, victorious, vitreous. |
| 3 | -ē u s | acrimonious, alias, amphibious, aqueous, bilious, coleus, commodious, contemporaneous, copious, courteous, devious, dubious, envious, erroneous, extraneous, fastidious, felonious, gaseous, harmonious, hideous, homogeneous, igneous, ignominious, impervious, insidious, instantaneous, invidious, lascivious, luxurious, melodious, miscellaneous, nucleus, oblivious, obsequious, obvious, odious, percutaneous, previous, punctilious, radius, sanctimonious, simultaneous, spontaneous, studious, supercilious, tedious, unceremonious. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-i-o-r-s-u-u" | |
-1 letter: curios. | |
-2 letters: coirs, curio, scour. | |
-3 letters: coir, cors, cris, crus, curs, orcs, ours, rocs, sori, sour, uric, urus. | |
-4 letters: cis, cor, cos, cur, orc, ors, our, roc, sic, sir, sou, sri. | |
-5 letters: is, or, os, si, so, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-i-o-r-s-u-u" | |
+1 letter: ructious. | |
+2 letters: curculios, curiouser, curiously, incurious, lubricous, ludicrous, uncurious. | |
+3 letters: ceruminous, circuitous, couturiers, curiousest, curvacious, lubricious, luciferous, miraculous, outcursing, ridiculous, scurrilous, succouring, ungracious, uricosuric. | |
+4 letters: countersuit, couturieres, cruciferous, cupriferous, curiousness, incongruous, incredulous, incuriously, ludicrously, microfungus, multicourse, multisource, outsourcing, perspicuous, promiscuous, scrumptious. | |
+5 letters: circuitously, circumfluous, circumfusion, cirrocumulus, countersuing, countersuits, discourteous, douroucoulis, furunculosis, glucuronides, jurisconsult, lubriciously, lucubrations, micronucleus, microtubules, miraculously, multicourses, outsourcings, overcautious, rambunctious, ridiculously, scrupulosity, scurrilously, stratocumuli, suborbicular, supercilious, transpicuous, tuberculosis, uncensorious, unchivalrous, ungraciously. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Sounds 10. Quotations: Familiar 11. Quotations: Fiction 12. Quotations: Non-fiction | 13. Usage Frequency 14. Expressions 15. Expressions: Internet 16. Translations: Modern | 17. Translations: Ancient 18. Bible Trace 19. Derivations 20. Rhymes | 21. Anagrams 22. Bibliography |
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