| a. | 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. Abstruse investigations in recondite branches of learning or sciense often bring to light curious results.
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| Adj. | 1. | curious - 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" |
| 2. | curious - 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" Antonyms: incurious - showing absence of intellectual inquisitiveness or natural curiosity; "strangely incurious about the cause of the political upheaval surrounding them" | |
| 3. | curious - having curiosity aroused; eagerly interested in learning more; "a trap door that made me curious" |
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