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curious
[ kyoor-ee-uhs ]
adjective
- eager to learn or know; inquisitive.
Synonyms: interested, inquiring
Antonyms: indifferent
- prying; meddlesome.
Antonyms: indifferent
- arousing or exciting speculation, interest, or attention through being inexplicable or highly unusual; odd; strange:
a curious sort of person;
a curious scene.
- Archaic.
- made or prepared skillfully.
- done with painstaking accuracy or attention to detail:
a curious inquiry.
- careful; fastidious.
- marked by intricacy or subtlety.
curious
/ ˈkjʊərɪəs /
adjective
- eager to learn; inquisitive
- overinquisitive; prying
- interesting because of oddness or novelty; strange; unexpected
- rare.(of workmanship, etc) highly detailed, intricate, or subtle
- obsolete.fastidious or hard to please
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Derived Forms
- ˈcuriously, adverb
- ˈcuriousness, noun
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Other Words From
- curi·ous·ly adverb
- curi·ous·ness noun
- non·curi·ous adjective
- non·curi·ous·ly adverb
- non·curi·ous·ness noun
- over·curi·ous adjective
- over·curi·ous·ly adverb
- over·curi·ous·ness noun
- super·curi·ous adjective
- super·curi·ous·ly adverb
- super·curi·ous·ness noun
- un·curi·ous adjective
- un·curi·ous·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of curious1
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Synonym Study
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Example Sentences
It can give you an insight into what people are searching for, interested in, and curious about.
Instead, I’m curious how we can have so many different seed data signals in the same year.
Although Rachel is curious about Miriam’s spiritual life, especially jealous of the ease Miriam and her family share, it is more in physical ways that they connect.
Rivas recalls walking into the venue in Buenos Aires and being greeted by a massive — and curious — crowd of several thousand.
Shultz was a policy maven, conservative but curious, patient and determined.
Even other men of color considered Revels a curious figure, for Mississippi had never had a large free black population.
But the ads are not just intended to remind the Google-curious that Paul exists and is thinking about running for president.
As I got better, I also got curious about what happened to other patients like me.
I had, for a long time, been curious about the place where all this fantastic stuff was made.
He was way too ill to visit the set and all that, but was very curious about the film.
At last there appeared some probability of their accomplishing this, after a most curious and truly Mexican fashion.
He heard himself saying lightly, though with apparent lack of interest: 'How curious, Lettice, how very odd!
This judicial bent of the child is a curious one and often develops a priggish fondness for setting others morally straight.
Sebastian Brandt died; counsellor of Strassburg, a lawyer, and author of a curious poem.
Something within him wanted to go, something that was perhaps intellectually curious.
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