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Curious vs. Singular — What's the Difference?

Curious vs. Singular — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Curious and Singular

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Curious

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

Singular

Being only one; individual; lone
A singular tree in the meadow.

Curious

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

Singular

Being the only one of a kind; unique
"Our stories are singular, but our destiny is shared" (Barack Obama).

Curious

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

Being beyond what is ordinary, especially in being exceptionally good; remarkable
"Dinners with [our two friends] became the evenings we looked forward to with singular pleasure" (David Halberstam).

Curious

Accomplished with skill or ingenuity.

Singular

Strange or unusual
"I accordingly obeyed forthwith what I still considered a very singular summons" (Edgar Allan Poe).

Curious

Extremely careful; scrupulous or fastidious.

Singular

Of, relating to, or being a noun, pronoun, or adjective denoting a single person or thing or several entities considered as a single unit.

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.

Singular

Of, relating to, or being a verb expressing the action or state of a single subject.

Curious

Caused by curiosity.

Singular

(Logic) Of or relating to the specific as distinguished from the general; individual.

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.

Singular

The singular number or a form designating it.

Curious

(LGBT) bi-curious

Singular

A word having a singular number.

Curious

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

Singular

Being only one of a larger population.
A singular experiment cannot be regarded as scientific proof of the existence of a phenomenon.

Curious

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

Singular

Being the only one of the kind; unique.
She has a singular personality.

Curious

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

Singular

Distinguished by superiority: peerless, unmatched, eminent, exceptional, extraordinary.
A man of singular gravity or attainments

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?

Singular

Out of the ordinary; curious.
It was very singular; I don't know why he did it.

Curious

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

Singular

(grammar) Referring to only one thing or person.

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.

Singular

Having no inverse.

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.

Singular

Having the property that the matrix of coefficients of the new variables has a determinant equal to zero.

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

Singular

Not equal to its own cofinality.

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

Singular

(law) Each; individual.
To convey several parcels of land, all and singular

Curious

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

Singular

(obsolete) Engaged in by only one on a side; single.

Singular

(grammar) A form of a word that refers to only one person or thing.

Singular

(logic) That which is not general; a specific determinate instance.

Singular

Separate or apart from others; single; distinct.
And God forbid that all a companyShould rue a singular man's folly.

Singular

Engaged in by only one on a side; single.
To try the matter thus together in a singular combat.

Singular

Existing by itself; single; individual.
The idea which represents one . . . determinate thing, is called a singular idea, whether simple, complex, or compound.

Singular

Each; individual; as, to convey several parcels of land, all and singular.

Singular

Denoting one person or thing; as, the singular number; - opposed to dual and plural.

Singular

Standing by itself; out of the ordinary course; unusual; uncommon; strange; as, a singular phenomenon.
So singular a sadnessMust have a cause as strange as the effect.

Singular

Distinguished as existing in a very high degree; rarely equaled; eminent; extraordinary; exceptional; as, a man of singular gravity or attainments.

Singular

Departing from general usage or expectations; odd; whimsical; - often implying disapproval or censure.
His zealNone seconded, as out of season judged,Or singular and rash.
To be singular in anything that is wise and worthy, is not a disparagement, but a praise.

Singular

Being alone; belonging to, or being, that of which there is but one; unique.
These busts of the emperors and empresses are all very scarce, and some of them almost singular in their kind.

Singular

An individual instance; a particular.

Singular

The singular number, or the number denoting one person or thing; a word in the singular number.

Singular

The form of a word that is used to denote a singleton

Singular

Unusual or striking;
A remarkable sight
Such poise is singular in one so young

Singular

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

Singular

Being a single and separate person or thing;
Can the singular person be understood apart from his culture?
Every fact in the world might be singular...unlike any other fact and sole of its kind

Singular

Grammatical number category referring to a single item or unit

Singular

The single one of its kind;
A singular example
The unique existing example of Donne's handwriting
A unique copy of an ancient manuscript
Certain types of problems have unique solutions

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