'Curious' definitions:
Definition of 'curious'
From: WordNet
adjective
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: curious, funny, odd, peculiar, queer, rum, rummy, singular]
adjective
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]
adjective
Having curiosity aroused; eagerly interested in learning more; "a trap door that made me curious"
Definition of 'Curious'
From: GCIDE
- Curious \Cu"ri*ous\ (k?"r?-?s), a. [OF. curios, curius, F. curieux, L. curiosus careful, inquisitive, fr. cura care. See Cure.]
- 1. Difficult to please or satisfy; solicitous to be correct; careful; scrupulous; nice; exact. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Little curious in her clothes. --Fuller. [1913 Webster]
- How shall we, If he be curious, work upon his faith? --Beau. & Fl. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Exhibiting care or nicety; artfully constructed; elaborate; wrought with elegance or skill. [1913 Webster]
- To devise curious works. --Ex. xxxv. 32 [1913 Webster]
- His body couched in a curious bed. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Careful or anxious to learn; eager for knowledge; given to research or inquiry; habitually inquisitive; prying; -- sometimes with after or of. [1913 Webster]
- It is a pity a gentleman so very curious after things that were elegant and beautiful should not have been as curious as to their origin, their uses, and their natural history. --Woodward. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Exciting attention or inquiry; awakening surprise; inviting and rewarding inquisitiveness; not simple or plain; strange; rare. "Acurious tale" --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- A multitude of curious analogies. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- Many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore. --E. A. Poe. [1913 Webster]
- Abstruse investigations in recondite branches of learning or sciense often bring to light curious results. --C. J. Smith. [1913 Webster]
- Curious arts, magic. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Many . . . which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them. --Acts xix. 19.
- Syn: Inquisitive; prying. See Inquisitive. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'curious'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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