- (a.) Difficult to please or satisfy; solicitous to be correct; careful; scrupulous; nice; exact.
- (a.) Exciting attention or inquiry; awakening surprise; inviting and rewarding inquisitiveness; not simple or plain; strange; rare.
- (a.) Careful or anxious to learn; eager for knowledge; given to research or inquiry; habitually inquisitive; prying; -- sometimes with after or of.
- (a.) Exhibiting care or nicety; artfully constructed; elaborate; wrought with elegance or skill.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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