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ask questions, especially in matters which do not concern the inquirer. A wise man is not inquisitive about things impertinent. Broome.

In an inquisitive manner. The occasion that made him afterwards so inquisitively apply himself to the study of physic. Boyle.

The quality or state of being inquisitive; the disposition to seek explanation and information; curiosity to learn what is unknown; esp., uncontrolled and impertinent curiosity. Mr. Boswell, whose inquisitiveness is seconded by great activity, scrambled in at a high window. Johnson. Curiosity in children nature has pro…

fter knowledge; a desire to gratify the mind with new information or objects of interest; inquisitiveness. Milton.

areful or anxious to learn; eager for knowledge; given to research or inquiry; habitually inquisitive; prying; -- sometimes with after or of. It is a picurious after things that were elegant and beatiful should not have been as curious as to their origin, their uses, and their natural history. Woodward.…

Inquisitiveness; curiosity.

Relating to disquisition; fond discussion or investigation; examining; inquisitive.

Not curious or inquisitive; without care for or interest in; inattentive; careless; negligent; heedless. Carelessnesses and incurious deportments toward their children. Jer. Taylor.

An inquisitive person; one fond of asking questions. [R.] "Inquisitors are tatlers." Feltham.

Given to investigation; inquisitive; curious; searching.

Impertinently inquisitive; prying; meddlesome. "Mousing saints." L'Estrange.

Inquisitive; suspicious; sharp. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] "Two peery gray eyes." Sir W. Scott.

To peer; to look inquisitively. Dickens.

One who pries; one who inquires narrowly and searches, or is inquisitive. So pragmatical a prier he is into divine secrets. Fuller.

Making researches; inquisitive. [R.] Coleridge.

Of or pertaining to vision; also, prying; inquisitive; curious. [R.] Bacon.

Excessively curious or inquisitive. Evelyn.