Meanings (ES + gloss)
curioso • tener curiosidad
Tending to ask questions, or to want to explore or investigate; inquisitive; (with a negative connotation) nosy, prying.
I shall quit your vessel on the ice raft which brought me thither and shall seek the most northern extremity of the globe; I shall collect my funeral pile, and consume to ashes thi…
Young children are naturally curious about the world and everything in it.
curioso • extraño • raro
Leading one to ask questions about; somewhat odd, out of the ordinary, or unusual.
1485 – Thomas Malory. Le Morte Darthur, Book X, Chapter xxxi, leaf 232v Thenne at the mete cam in Elyas the harper & by cause he was a curyous harper men herd hym synge the same la…
The platypus is a curious creature, with fur like a mammal and a beak like a bird.
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