CURIOUS


Meaning of CURIOUS in English

adjective

1.

Synonyms: inquisitive 1, disquisitive, inquiring, investigative, questioning

Related Word: searching; analytical; prurient

Antonyms: incurious

2.

interested in what is not one's personal or proper concern

a curious old woman prying into her neighbors' affairs

Synonyms: inquisitive, inquisitorial, inquisitory, ||nibby, nosy, peery, prying, snoopy

Related Word: interfering, intermeddling, meddling, tampering; examining, inspecting, scrutinizing; impertinent, intrusive, meddlesome

Idioms: consumed ( or burning or eaten up) with curiosity, curious as a cat ( or monkey)

Contrasted words: aloof, detached, disinterested, indifferent, unconcerned, uninterested; apathetic, impassive, phlegmatic, stolid

Antonyms: incurious

3.

Synonyms: strange 4, bizarre, odd, oddball, peculiar, quaint, queer, singular, unusual, weird

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