See inquisitive on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1741, I[saac] Watts, “Of living Instructions and Lectures, of Teachers and Learners”, in The Improvement of the Mind: Or, A Supplement to the Art of Logick: […], London: […] James Brackstone, […], →OCLC, paragraph III, page 100:",
"text": "[…] a young, inquiſitive and ſprightly Genius; […]",
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"Eager to acquire knowledge; acquisitive."
],
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"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "hetakʻrkʻraser",
"sense": "eager to acquire knowledge",
"word": "հետաքրքրասեր"
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"roman": "ljuboznatelen",
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"sense": "eager to acquire knowledge",
"word": "masukitsukiton"
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"sense": "eager to acquire knowledge",
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"roman": "hàoqí",
"sense": "eager to acquire knowledge",
"word": "好奇"
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"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "eager to acquire knowledge",
"word": "nysgerrig"
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"sense": "eager to acquire knowledge",
"word": "videbegærlig"
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"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "eager to acquire knowledge",
"word": "nieuwsgierig"
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"sense": "eager to acquire knowledge",
"word": "leergierig"
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"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "eager to acquire knowledge",
"word": "scivola"
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"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "eager to acquire knowledge",
"word": "utelias"
},
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "eager to acquire knowledge",
"word": "tiedonhaluinen"
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"sense": "eager to acquire knowledge",
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"sense": "eager to acquire knowledge",
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "eager to acquire knowledge",
"word": "neugierig"
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"_dis1": "97 3",
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"sense": "eager to acquire knowledge",
"word": "wissbegierig"
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"code": "hi",
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"roman": "jijñāsu",
"sense": "eager to acquire knowledge",
"word": "जिज्ञासु"
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"word": "知りたがる"
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"word": "ziņkārīgs"
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"word": "dociekliwy"
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"word": "vetgirig"
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"word": "frågvis"
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"_dis1": "97 3",
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"sense": "eager to acquire knowledge",
"word": "tò mò"
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"ref": "1725, Homer, “Book XI”, in [Alexander Pope], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], volume III, London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC, footnote, page 75:",
"text": "A wiſe man is not inquiſitive about things impertinent; […]",
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"ref": "1890, Jacob A[ugust] Riis, “A Raid on the Stale-beer Dives”, in How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 77:",
"text": "Huddled together in loathsome files, they squat there over night, or until an inquisitive policeman breaks up the congregation with his club, which in Mulberry Street has always free swing.",
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"ref": "1892, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “[Beyond the City] The New-comers”, in The Great Shadow and Beyond the City, Bristol: J. W. Arrowsmith, […]; London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., →OCLC, page 157:",
"text": "No, no, Bertha; we must not give them reason to say that their neighbours are inquisitive.",
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"ref": "1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 16: Eumaeus]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part III [Nostos], page 575:",
"text": "― Everybody gets their own ration of luck, they say. Now you mention it his face was familiar to me. But leaving that for the moment, how much did you part with, he queried, if I am not too inquisitive?",
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"word": "kíváncsiskodó"
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"word": "tolakodó"
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"word": "kandi"
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"word": "minden lében kanál"
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"lang": "Latvian",
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"code": "nb",
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"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "eager to acquire knowledge",
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"code": "pt",
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"word": "inquisitivo"
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"code": "ru",
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"roman": "ljuboznátelʹnyj",
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"code": "ru",
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"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "eager to acquire knowledge",
"word": "tò mò"
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"code": "bg",
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"roman": "dosadno ljubopiten",
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"code": "nl",
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"sense": "too curious; overly interested; nosy",
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "too curious; overly interested; nosy",
"word": "tunkeileva"
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"word": "curieux"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "too curious; overly interested; nosy",
"word": "neugierig"
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"code": "hu",
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"word": "kíváncsiskodó"
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"code": "hu",
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"sense": "too curious; overly interested; nosy",
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"code": "hu",
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"sense": "too curious; overly interested; nosy",
"word": "indiszkrét"
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"code": "hu",
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"sense": "too curious; overly interested; nosy",
"word": "tapintatlan"
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "too curious; overly interested; nosy",
"word": "kandi"
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "too curious; overly interested; nosy",
"word": "minden lében kanál"
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"code": "it",
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"word": "curioso"
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
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"word": "indiscreto"
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"code": "jam",
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"word": "fass"
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"lang": "Maori",
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"word": "mahira"
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"code": "mi",
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"sense": "too curious; overly interested; nosy",
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"code": "nb",
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"code": "pl",
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"word": "ciekawski"
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"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "too curious; overly interested; nosy",
"word": "wścibski"
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"code": "pt",
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"sense": "too curious; overly interested; nosy",
"word": "inquisitivo"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "too curious; overly interested; nosy",
"word": "enxerido"
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{
"code": "pt",
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"sense": "too curious; overly interested; nosy",
"word": "intrometido"
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"sense": "too curious; overly interested; nosy",
"word": "любопы́тный"
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"code": "sv",
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"word": "nyfiken"
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"code": "vi",
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"word": "dòm ngó"
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