meaning of curious
1. Difficult to please or satisfy; solicitous to be correct; careful; scrupulous; nice; exact.
2. Exhibiting care or nicety; artfully constructed; elaborate; wrought with elegance or skill.
3. Careful or anxious to learn; eager for knowledge; given to research or inquiry; habitually inquisitive; prying; -- sometimes with after or of.
4. Exciting attention or inquiry; awakening surprise; inviting and rewarding inquisitiveness; not simple or plain; strange; rare.
5. eager to investigate and learn or learn more sometimes about others concerns; "a curious child is a teachers delight"; "a trap door that made me curious"; "curious investigators"; "traffic was slowed by curious rubberneckers"; "curious about the neighbors
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Related Words
curious | curiously | curiously enough | curiousness |
