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inconsistent
English
Etymology
in- +? consistent
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??nk?n?s?st?nt/
Adjective
inconsistent (comparative more inconsistent, superlative most inconsistent)
- Not consistent:
- Antonym: consistent
- Not compatible (with another thing); incompatible, discrepant, at odds.
- His account of the evening was inconsistent with the security-camera footage.
- Lacking internal consistency; self-contradicting; not compatible with itself.
- He gave an inconsistent account of the evening, saying he called her before eight, but later that he had not talked to her until after nine.
- 1862, The Christian Reformer (ed. Robert Aspland):
- He was one of those men of inconsistent politics, governed at once by prejudice and sympathies, whose 'attitude' it is impossible to foretell.
- Not consistent or coherent in thought or behavior.
- 1848, The Columbian Magazine, volume 9, page 88:
- “Take him for better or worse,” added Mr. Lee, “and I think he is the strangest and most inconsistent man I ever saw.”
- “Inconsistent!” resumed Mr. Jones. “He is worse than inconsistent. Inconsistencies may be pardoned as constitutional defects [...]”
- 1848, The Columbian Magazine, volume 9, page 88:
- (logic) Having the property that a contradiction can be derived.
Derived terms
- inconsistently
Related terms
- inconsistency
Translations
Anagrams
- nonscientist
Catalan
Etymology
in- +? consistent
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Valencian) IPA(key): /i?.kon.sis?tent/
- (Central) IPA(key): /i?.kun.sis?ten/
Adjective
inconsistent (masculine and feminine plural inconsistents)
- inconsistent
- Antonym: consistent
Related terms
- inconsistència
Further reading
- “inconsistent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “inconsistent” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “inconsistent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “inconsistent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Romanian
Etymology
From French inconsistant
Adjective
inconsistent m or n (feminine singular inconsistent?, masculine plural inconsisten?i, feminine and neuter plural inconsistente)
- inconsistent
Declension
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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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