Curious

Adjective

 * 1)  Fastidious, particular; demanding a high standard of excellence, difficult to satisfy.
 * 2) * 1612, John Smith, Proceedings of the English Colonie in Virginia, in Kupperman 1988, p. 172:
 * But departing thence, when we found no houses, we were not curious in any weather, to lie 3 or 4 nights together upon any shore under the trees by a good fire.
 * 1) Inquisitive; tending to ask questions, investigate, or explore.
 * Young children are naturally curious about the world and everything in it.
 * 1) Prompted by curiosity.
 * 2) * 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.ix:
 * But he to shift their curious request, / Gan causen, why she could not come in place [...].
 * 1) unusual; odd; out of the ordinary; bizarre
 * The platypus is a curious creature, with fur like a mammal and a beak like a bird.

Adverbs for Curious
incurably; meanly; inquisitively; intellectually;  daringly;   crassly;   offensively; frightfully; gracelessly; grossly; maliciously; malevolently; unbearably; odiously; roughly; childishly; innocently; wondering-y; impertinently; impudently; unpardonably; inexcusably; hatefully; coarsely.

Synonyms for Curious
inquisitive, interesting, examining, inquiring, meddling, prying.

Antonyms for Curious
incurious, dull, indifferent.

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

Translations

 * Arabic:
 * Bulgarian:, любознателен
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 * Danish: nysgerrig
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 * German:
 * Hebrew: סקרן (saqran), סקרנית (saqranyt)
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Lithuanian: smalsus, žingeidus
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 * Romanian: curios
 * Russian: (1): любопытный, проявляющий интерес
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 * Bulgarian: странен, куриозен
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish: besynderlig, mærkværdig,
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
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 * German:
 * Italian: ,
 * Lithuanian: neįprastas, keistas
 * Romanian: straniu, ciudat, bizar, neobișnuit, curios
 * Russian: странный, вызывающий любопытство.
 * Spanish:, ,

Related terms

 * curiosity (noun)
 * curio