Curious

Quick meaning: Curious is an adjective meaning Tending to ask questions, or to want to explore or investigate; inquisitive; (with a negative connotation) nosy, prying.

Meaning

Tending to ask questions, or to want to explore or investigate; inquisitive; (with a negative connotation) nosy, prying.

More Meanings

1. Caused by curiosity.
2. Leading one to ask questions about; somewhat odd, out of the ordinary, or unusual.
3. (LGBTQ) Clipping of bi-curious.
4. (in combination) Interested in entering a romantic or sexual relationship with a specified group.
5. (inorganic chemistry, rare) Containing or pertaining to trivalent curium.
6. (obsolete) Careful, fastidious, particular; (specifically) demanding a high standard of excellence, difficult to satisfy.
7. (obsolete) Carefully or artfully constructed; made with great elegance or skill.

Example Sentences

Young children are naturally curious about the world and everything in it.

But he to ſhifte their curious requeſt, / Gan cauſen, why ſhe could not come in place; [...].

George is a little monkey, / and all monkeys are curious. / But no monkey / is as curious as George. / That is why his name is / Curious George.

Such is the uneven State of human Life: And it afforded me a great many curious Speculations afterwards, when I had a little recovered my first surprise.

Word Forms

• curiouser
• curiousest

Synonyms for curious

Depending on context, synonyms include exquisitive, investigative, peery, aberrant, abnormal, alien.

Antonyms for curious

Common opposites include incurious, noncurious, uncurious.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include inquisitive, questioning, wondering, overcurious, interested, speculative.

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