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supercurious

supercurious adjective: excessively curious or inquisitive.

Adjective

supercurious (comparative more supercurious, superlative most supercurious)

  1. Excessively curious or inquisitive.
    • the knife with which the sallet herbs are cut, according to the super-curious (especially oranges, limons, & c.), be of silver, and by no means of steel1664, J[ohn] E[velyn], Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions. […], London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to the Royal...

Forms of supercurious

comparativemore supercurious
superlativemost supercurious

Origin of supercurious

From super- + curious.

Questions about supercurious

What does supercurious mean?
Supercurious means excessively curious or inquisitive.
What part of speech is supercurious?
Supercurious is an adjective.

Words near supercurious in the dictionary

  1. supercultures
  2. supercunt
  3. supercunts
  4. supercup
  5. supercups
  6. supercurious
  7. supercurrent
  8. supercurrents
  9. supercurricular
  10. supercurvature
  11. supercurvatures

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