Curious

['kjʊərɪəs] or ['kjʊrɪəs]

Definition

(adj.) 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.) 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' .

(adj.) having curiosity aroused; eagerly interested in learning more; 'a trap door that made me curious' .

Checked by Dale--From WordNet

Definition

(a.) Difficult to please or satisfy; solicitous to be correct; careful; scrupulous; nice; exact.

(a.) Exhibiting care or nicety; artfully constructed; elaborate; wrought with elegance or skill.

(a.) Careful or anxious to learn; eager for knowledge; given to research or inquiry; habitually inquisitive; prying; -- sometimes with after or of.

(a.) Exciting attention or inquiry; awakening surprise; inviting and rewarding inquisitiveness; not simple or plain; strange; rare.

Checker: Mollie

Synonyms and Synonymous

a. [1]. Inquisitive, scrutinizing, prying, peering.[2]. Rare, singular, strange, unusual, unique, extraordinary, queer, out of the way.[3]. Elegant, neat, nice, finished.

Checked by Ernest

Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Inquiring, inquisitive, scrutinizing, prying, meddling, singular, searching,interrogative, peeping, peering, rare, unique, odd, recondite

ANT:Indifferent, uninquiring, incurious, uninterested, trite, common, superficial

Checked by Estes

Definition

adj. anxious to learn: inquisitive: showing great care or nicety: skilfully made: singular: rare.—n. Curios′ity state or quality of being curious: inquisitiveness: that which is curious: anything rare or unusual.—adv. Cū′riously.—n. Cū′riousness.—Curious arts (B.) magical practices.

Typist: Morton

Examples

Checker: Raymond

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