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/ɪnkwˈɪzɪtɪv/ Listen

adjective

Inquisitive adj.

Disposed to ask questions, especially in matters which do not concern the inquirer. "A wise man is not inquisitive about things impertinent."

Given to examination, investigation, or research; searching; curious. "A young, inquisitive, and sprightly genius."

Synonyms: Inquiring; prying; curious; meddling; intrusive. Inquisitive, Curious, Prying. Curious denotes a feeling, and inquisitive a habit. We are curious when we desire to learn something new; we are inquisitive when we set ourselves to gain it by inquiry or research. Prying implies inquisitiveness, and is more commonly used in a bad sense, as indicating a desire to penetrate into the secrets of others. "(We) curious are to hear, What happens new." "This folio of four pages (a newspaper), happy work! Which not even critics criticise; that holds Inquisitive attention, while I read." "Nor need we with a prying eye survey The distant skies, to find the Milky Way."

noun

Inquisitive n. A person who is inquisitive; one curious in research.

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Etymology of 'Inquisitive'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Inquisitive" Quotes from Famous Books

... afforded us the greatest satisfaction to answer the numerous and varied questions of our inquisitive little readers; and except in instances where the answer, were it given correctly, would occupy too much space in our columns, or be too scientific for the comprehension of the youthful querist, we have left but two or three ...

— Harper's Young People, October 26, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various

... of errors would be almost as long as the novel itself, most are given in tabular form only. Some counts may be incomplete. Inquisitive readers may like to look at the source code of the html version of the text, where most errors are ...

— Isabel Leicester - A Romance • Clotilda Jennings

... are too inquisitive. Your spirit is full of restlessness, and you carry trouble with you wherever you go. I felt so happy to-day until my eye fell upon you, and black care entered ...

— An Obscure Apostle - A Dramatic Story • Eliza Orzeszko

... inquisitive gaze of the bystanders; and his companion observing the fluctuation of his countenance, added, as the door was opened ...

— Thaddeus of Warsaw • Jane Porter

... unmoved by them, and simply looked upon them as men who had adopted the false principle that the human reason is above everything, and who know nothing of the real nature of faith; so that this spirit, so great and inquisitive, which searched so carefully for the reason of everything, was at the same time submissive as a child to all the truths of religion, and this submissive simplicity predominated in him through his ...

— Pascal • John Tulloch

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