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Curious vs Oddball - What's the difference?

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Curious is a related term of oddball.


As adjectives the difference between curious and oddball

is that curious is (lb) fastidious, particular; demanding a high standard of excellence, difficult to satisfy while oddball is exotic, not mainstream, such as an oddball word or an oddball computer program.

As a noun oddball is

an eccentric or unusual person.

curious

English

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • (lb) Fastidious, particular; demanding a high standard of excellence, difficult to satisfy.
  • *1612 , , Proceedings of the English Colonie in Virginia , in Kupperman 1988, p.172:
  • *:But departing thence, when we found no houses, we were not curious in any weather, to lie 3 or 4 nights together upon any shore under the trees by a good fire.
  • *(Thomas Fuller) (1606-1661)
  • *:little curious in her clothes
  • Inquisitive; tending to ask questions, investigate, or explore.
  • :
  • Prompted by curiosity.
  • *1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , III.ix:
  • *:But he to shift their curious request, / Gan causen, why she could not come in place.
  • Unusual; odd; out of the ordinary; bizarre.
  • :
  • *
  • *:Captain Edward Carlisle, soldier as he was, martinet as he was, felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, her alluring smile?; he could not tell what this prisoner might do.
  • (lb) Exhibiting care or nicety; artfully constructed; elaborate; wrought with elegance or skill.
  • *(Bible), (w) xxxv.32
  • *:to devise curious works
  • *(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
  • *:his body couched in a curious bed

    • Related terms

    * curiosity (noun) * curio

    oddball

    English

    (wikipedia oddball)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An eccentric or unusual person.
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    • See also

    * weirdo * queer fish

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Exotic, not mainstream, such as an oddball word or an oddball computer program.
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