Moving vs Curious - What's the difference?
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(no comparative or superlative ) That moves or move.
That causes someone to feel emotion.
* Coleridge
(uncountable) The relocation of goods
(countable) A causing of a movement
(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.
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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.
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*: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
As adjectives the difference between moving and curious
is that moving is (no comparative or superlative) That moves or move while curious is fastidious, particular; demanding a high standard of excellence, difficult to satisfy.As a verb moving
is present participle of lang=en.As a noun moving
is the relocation of goods.moving
English
(wikipedia moving)Adjective
(en adjective)- moving pictures
- I sang an old moving story.
Verb
(head)Noun
- The rats' movings are willed movements.