Dictionary Definition
curious adj
1 beyond or deviating from the usual or expected;
"a curious hybrid accent"; "her speech has a funny twang"; "they
have some funny ideas about war"; "had an odd name"; "the peculiar
aromatic odor of cloves"; "something definitely queer about this
town"; "what a rum fellow"; "singular behavior" [syn: funny, odd, peculiar, queer, rum, rummy, singular]
2 eager to investigate and learn or learn more
(sometimes about others' concerns); "a curious child is a teacher's
delight"; "a trap door that made me curious"; "curious
investigators"; "traffic was slowed by curious rubberneckers";
"curious about the neighbor's doings" [ant: incurious]
3 having curiosity aroused; eagerly interested in
learning more; "a trap door that made me curious"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- /ˈkjuːriːəs/
- /"kju:ri:@s/
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- Rhymes: -ʊəriəs
Adjective
Translations
inquisitive
unusual
Extensive Definition
curious in Arabic: فضول
curious in Catalan: Curiositat
curious in German: Neugier
curious in Spanish: Curiosidad
curious in French: Curiosité (faculté)
curious in Galician: Curiosidade
curious in Hebrew: סקרנות
curious in Dutch: Nieuwsgierigheid
curious in Japanese: 好奇心
curious in Norwegian: Kuriositet
curious in Portuguese: Curiosidade
(emoção)
curious in Romanian: Curiozitate
curious in Albanian: Kureshtja
curious in Sicilian: Curiusità
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
aberrant, abnormal, absurd, agape, agog, all agog, analytical, attentive, attracted, barmy, bizarre, burning with curiosity,
careful, catechistic, cathectic, cautious, circumspect, concerned, considerate, consumed with
curiosity, deviant,
deviate, eccentric, enthusiastic, erratic, examining, excited, exotic, extraordinary, fascinated, freaked out,
freakish, freaky, funny, ghoulish, gossipy, grotesque, heedful, impertinent, inquiring, inquisitional, inquisitive, inquisitorial, interested, interfering, intermeddling, interrogational,
interrogative,
interrogatory,
intrusive, investigative, irregular, itchy, keen on, kinky, kooky, loving, meddlesome, meddling, mindful, morbid, morbidly curious,
nosy, nuts, nutty, odd, oddball, off, off the wall, offbeat, open-eyed, openmouthed, out, outlandish, outrageous, outre, overcurious, passing
strange, passionate,
peculiar, piqued, pixilated, prurient, prying, quaint, queer, querying, questioning, quizzical, quizzing, regardful, scopophiliac, scrutinizing, searching, singular, snooping, snoopy, solicitous, strange, supercurious, tantalized, tender, thoughtful, tickled, titillated, turned-on,
unconventional,
unearthly, unusual, voyeuristic, weird, wondrous
strange