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Curious vs. Curiously — What's the Difference?

Curious vs. Curiously — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Curious and Curiously

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Curious

Eager to learn more
Curious investigators.
A trapdoor that made me curious.

Curiously

Eager to learn more
Curious investigators.
A trapdoor that made me curious.

Curious

Unduly inquisitive; prying
A curious neighbor always looking over the fence.

Curiously

Unduly inquisitive; prying
A curious neighbor always looking over the fence.

Curious

Arousing interest because of novelty or strangeness
A curious fact.
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Curiously

Arousing interest because of novelty or strangeness
A curious fact.

Curious

Accomplished with skill or ingenuity.

Curiously

Accomplished with skill or ingenuity.

Curious

Extremely careful; scrupulous or fastidious.

Curiously

Extremely careful; scrupulous or fastidious.

Curious

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.

Curiously

In a curious manner; with curiosity; inquisitively.
The children peeped curiously into the attic room.

Curious

Caused by curiosity.

Curiously

Oddly; in a strange or unexpected way.
Curiously, when I arrived home, the front door was standing ajar.

Curious

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.

Curiously

In a curious manner.

Curious

(LGBT) bi-curious

Curiously

In a manner differing from the usual or expected;
Had a curiously husky voice
He's behaving rather peculiarly

Curious

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

Curiously

With curiosity;
The baby looked around curiously

Curious

(obsolete) Carefully or artfully constructed; made with great elegance or skill.

Curious

Containing or pertaining to trivalent curium. Category:en:Radioactivity

Curious

Difficult to please or satisfy; solicitous to be correct; careful; scrupulous; nice; exact.
Little curious in her clothes.
How shall we,If he be curious, work upon his faith?

Curious

Exhibiting care or nicety; artfully constructed; elaborate; wrought with elegance or skill.
To devise curious works.
His body couched in a curious bed.

Curious

Careful or anxious to learn; eager for knowledge; given to research or inquiry; habitually inquisitive; prying; - sometimes with after or of.
It is a pity a gentleman so very curious after things that were elegant and beautiful should not have been as curious as to their origin, their uses, and their natural history.

Curious

Exciting attention or inquiry; awakening surprise; inviting and rewarding inquisitiveness; not simple or plain; strange; rare.
A multitude of curious analogies.
Many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore.
Abstruse investigations in recondite branches of learning or sciense often bring to light curious results.
Many . . . which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them.

Curious

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

Curious

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

Curious

Having curiosity aroused; eagerly interested in learning more;
A trap door that made me curious

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