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curious
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English curious (“careful, meticulous; ingenious, skilful; expert, learned; concerned about (something); eager; curious, inquisitive; prying; carefully or skilfully made; exquisite, fine; sophisticated; recondite; magic or occult; absorbing, painstaking”) [and other forms], from Old French curios, curius (modern French curieux (“curious, inquisitive; interesting, quaint, unusual”)), and its etymon Latin c?ri?sus (“careful; complicated, elaborate; careworn; curious, inquisitive; meddlesome, prying”), from c?ra (“care, concern; anxiety; sorrow; attention; administration, management; command, office; guardianship”) (from Proto-Indo-European *k?eys- (“to heed”)) + -?sus (suffix meaning ‘full of, prone to’ forming adjectives from nouns). The English word is cognate with Italian curioso (“curious, inquisitive”), Occitan curios, Portuguese curioso (“curious, inquisitive; odd, out of the ordinary”), Spanish curioso (“curious, inquisitive; interesting; odd, strange; quaint”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?kj??.?i.?s/, /?kj??-/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?kj?.?i.?s/, /?kj?.i.?s/
- Rhymes: -???i?s
- Hyphenation: cu?ri?ous
Adjective
curious (comparative more curious or curiouser, superlative most curious or curiousest)
- Tending to ask questions, or to want to explore or investigate; inquisitive; (with a negative connotation) nosy, prying.
- Synonyms: enquiring, inquiring; (obsolete) exquisitive; investigative; (rare) peery
- Antonyms: incurious, noncurious, uncurious
- Caused by curiosity.
- Leading one to ask questions about; somewhat odd, out of the ordinary, or unusual.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:strange
- Antonym: uncurious
- (obsolete) Careful, fastidious, particular; (specifically) demanding a high standard of excellence, difficult to satisfy.
- (obsolete) Carefully or artfully constructed; made with great elegance or skill.
Usage notes
The comparative and superlative forms curiouser and curiousest are regarded as informal or nonstandard.
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Etymology 2
curi(um) +? -ous
Adjective
curious (not comparable)
- (chemistry, rare) Containing or pertaining to trivalent curium.
References
Further reading
- curiosity on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- curious (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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intuitive
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French intuitif, from Medieval Latin intuitivus, from Latin intueri.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?n?tju??t?v/
Adjective
intuitive (comparative more intuitive, superlative most intuitive)
- Spontaneous, without requiring conscious thought.
- 2013 February 16, Laurie Goodstein, “Cardinals Size Up Potential Candidates for New Pope”, NYTimes.com:
- These impressions [of potential papal candidates], collected from interviews with a variety of church officials and experts, may influence the very intuitive, often unpredictable process the cardinals will use to decide who should lead the world’s largest church.
- The intuitive response turned out to be correct.
- 2013 February 16, Laurie Goodstein, “Cardinals Size Up Potential Candidates for New Pope”, NYTimes.com:
- Easily understood or grasped by intuition.
- Designing software with an intuitive interface can be difficult.
- Having a marked degree of intuition.
Antonyms
- unintuitive
- nonintuitive
- counterintuitive
Related terms
- intuition
- intuit
Translations
Noun
intuitive (plural intuitives)
- One who has (especially parapsychological) intuition.
French
Adjective
intuitive
- feminine singular of intuitif
German
Pronunciation
Adjective
intuitive
- inflection of intuitiv:
- strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
- strong nominative/accusative plural
- weak nominative all-gender singular
- weak accusative feminine/neuter singular
Italian
Adjective
intuitive
- feminine plural of intuitivo
Norwegian Bokmål
Adjective
intuitive
- definite singular of intuitiv
- plural of intuitiv
Norwegian Nynorsk
Adjective
intuitive
- definite singular of intuitiv
- plural of intuitiv
intuitive From the web:
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