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Meaning of curiosus | Babel Free

Adjective feminine CEFR B2
[kuː.riˈoː.sʊs]

Definitions

  1. Careful, diligent, thoughtful, devoted.
    adjective, declension-1, declension-2
  2. Elaborate, complicated.
    adjective, declension-1, declension-2
  3. That injures himself by care; careworn, emaciated, wasted, lean.
    adjective, declension-1, declension-2
  4. Curious, inquisitive.
    adjective, declension-1, declension-2
  5. Meddlesome, officious, prying, interfering, curious, inquisitive.
    adjective, declension-1, declension-2

Examples

“Etenim si delectamur cum scribimus, quis est tam invidus qui ab eo nos abducat? … Sic isti curiosi, quos offendit noster minime nobis iniucundus labor.”

Indeed if I enjoy writing, who would be so spiteful as to keep me from it? … Thus are these meddlesome individuals to whom this my not at all unpleasant (to me) endeavor is offensive.

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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