curious

Adjective Satellite

• beyond or deviating from the usual or expected
  • "a curious hybrid accent"
• having curiosity aroused; eagerly interested in learning more
  • "a trap door that made me curious"

Adjective

• Eager to know or learn something; inquisitive.
• 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"

Adj

• Tending to ask questions, or to want to explore or investigate; inquisitive; (with a negative connotation) nosy, prying.
• Caused by curiosity.
• Leading one to ask questions about; somewhat odd, out of the ordinary, or unusual.
• Clipping of bi-curious.
• Interested in entering a romantic or sexual relationship with a specified group.
• Careful, fastidious, particular; (specifically) demanding a high standard of excellence, difficult to satisfy.
• Carefully or artfully constructed; made with great elegance or skill.
• Containing or pertaining to trivalent curium.

Examples

• He was CURIOUS to see what words his opponent would play next on the Words With Friends board.
• The platypus is a curious creature, with fur like a mammal and a beak like a bird.
• Young children are naturally curious about the world and everything in it.

Synonyms

funny, odd, peculiar, queer, rum, rummy, singular, aberrant, abnormal, alien, anomalous, as queer as Dick's hatband, bizarre, curious, deviant, discrepant, eerie, eldritch, enquiring, inquiring, errant, exceptional, exquisitive, extraordinary, fey, forby, freak, freakish, freaky, fremd, heteroclite, hinky, incongruitous, incongruous, investigative, irregular, kooky, monstrous, nonstandard, out of the ordinary, outlandish, outré, peery, quaint, queer as Dick's hatband, queer as a clockwork orange, queer as a coot, queer as a nine bob note, queer as a three dollar bill, rare, selcouth, seld, strange, trippy, uncanny, uncommon, unconventional, unearthly, unexpected, unreasonable, unusual, unwonted, weird, weirdsome, yampy

Antonyms

incurious, noncurious, uncurious

Related Words

curio, curiosity, curiosity killed the cat, incurious, incuriously, incuriousness