CURIOUSLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does curiously mean? 

• CURIOUSLY (adverb)
  The adverb CURIOUSLY has 2 senses:

1. in a manner differing from the usual or expected

2. with curiosity

  Familiarity information: CURIOUSLY used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CURIOUSLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a manner differing from the usual or expected

Synonyms:

curiously; inexplicably; oddly; peculiarly

Context example:

he's behaving rather peculiarly

Pertainym:

curious (beyond or deviating from the usual or expected)

Sense 2

Meaning:

With curiosity

Synonyms:

curiously; inquisitively; interrogatively

Context example:

the baby looked around curiously

Pertainym:

curious (eager to investigate and learn or learn more (sometimes about others' concerns))

 Context examples 

“What now?” she asked sleepily, and, withal, curiously.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I saw him look curiously at my companion.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His shoulders are rounded from much study, and his face protrudes forward, and is forever slowly oscillating from side to side in a curiously reptilian fashion.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As Dorothy entered they looked at her curiously, and one of them whispered: Are you really going to look upon the face of Oz the Terrible?

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Curiously, it hasn't been clear until now what alpha-synuclein actually does in the cell: why it's there and what it's meant to do.

(Calcium May Play A Role in Development of Parkinson's Disease, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Curiously, Gephyrin appears to be a bifunctional protein, with a domain involved in molybdenum metabolism.

(GABA Receptor Life Cycle Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Jim looked curiously at him, wondering evidently what it was that lay behind these abrupt sentences and sudden silences.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He pulled a manuscript from his inside coat pocket and passed it to Martin, who looked at the title and glanced up curiously.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

"Tell me about Ellen Tree. Is it a donkey?" asked Grace curiously.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He sniffed it curiously, then licked some up on his tongue.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)