| 词汇 | thesaurus_articles_interested-in-learning-about-people-or-things |
| 释义 | interested in learning about people or thingsThese words describe people that are interested in learning about people or things around them. The most common word for this is curious. It usually has a positive meaning. The best students are the ones who are curious about everything. The opposite of curious is incurious. Incurious is a formal word. For a reporter, she is remarkably incurious. People who are inquisitive want to discover as much as they can about things. Inquisitive can be used in a positive way, but when the way that a person tries to find information annoys others, it has a negative meaning. She's such an inquisitive little girl! His mother was a little too inquisitive about whether he was dating anyone. Inquiring can be used to describe people who are always wanting to know new things. It's often used in the phrase inquiring minds to talk about a group of curious people. In UK English, this word is also spelled enquiring. The organization tries to encourage inquiring and analytical young people to go into the sciences. Is the actor dating his co-star? Inquiring minds want to know! Nosy people are too interested in what other people are doing and want to discover too much about them. It is a disapproving word, and it tends to be used in speech and in less formal language. "Did her spouse leave her?" "Well, aren't you rather nosy!" He's got a couple of nosy neighbours. People who want to know too much about someone else's sexual behaviour is called, in formal and disapproving language, prurient. That reporter has a reputation for being prurient and asking questions that are too invasive. Inquisitorial is a formal and disapproving word to describe the behaviour of someone who asks too many questions in an annoying or an accusing way. The inquisitorial nature of his questions did not set his guest at ease. That sort of inquisitiorial approach to the debate will only convince voters you are attacking your opponent. For more words to describe being interested in someone or something, see the article at interested. |
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