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Definition of Overcurious
1. Adjective. Showing excessive curiosity.
Definition of Overcurious
1. a. Too curious.
Definition of Overcurious
1. Adjective. Excessively curious ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overcurious
Literary usage of Overcurious
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of the United States by Edward Channing (1912)
"... except now and then to bribe an inquisitive governor or an overcurious customs
collector. In 1760 William Pitt, finding that the continental colonists ..."
2. The Works of Alexander Hamilton by Alexander Hamilton (1904)
"... has gone on the ground that, though we ought not to submit to unequivocal
disgrace, yet we ought not to be too susceptible or overcurious and nice. ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1922)
"... clamoring for attention in a volume entitled Georgian Stones, the editor of
which has chosen to conceal his identity from a not overcurious public. ..."
4. The Bookman (1911)
"The four found they had to retire in successive refuges from overcurious English
residents (some of whom actually used a telescope in their observations! ..."
5. Commentaries on the Conflict of Laws, Foreign and Domestic by Joseph Story, Melville Madison Bigelow (1883)
"The subject is in itself full of intrinsic difficulties; but it has been rendered
more perplexed by metaphysical niceties and overcurious learning.2 ..."
6. The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States, Being by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison (1901)
"The second question is not less delicate; and the flattering prospect of its
being merely hypothetical forbids an overcurious discussion of it. ..."
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