Solicitous vs Curious - What's the difference?
solicitous | curious |
Disposed to solicit; eager to obtain something desirable, or to avoid anything evil; concerned; anxious; careful.
Anxious or concerned (usually followed by about'', ''for , etc., or a clause): solicitous about a person's health.
(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 solicitous and curious
is that solicitous is disposed to solicit; eager to obtain something desirable, or to avoid anything evil; concerned; anxious; careful while curious is fastidious, particular; demanding a high standard of excellence, difficult to satisfy.solicitous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Solicitous of my reputation. -.
- He was solicitous for his advice. -.
- Enjoy the present, whatsoever it be, and be not solicitous about the future. - .
- The colonel had been intent upon other things, and not enough solicitous to finish the fortifications. -.