someone who is curious wants to find out about something
I didn’t mean to pry. I’m just curious. That’s all.
curious about:
Children are curious about animals and how they live.
curious to see/hear/know something:
People were curious to know why the accidenthappened.
Synonyms and related words
Asking a lot of questions and wanting to know things
curious
inquisitive
questioning
1a
used about someone’s expression
a curious look/glance:
She shot him a quick, curious look.
Synonyms and related words
Words used to describe facial expressions
absent
appealing
beatific
2
unusual and interesting
a set of curious kitchenimplements
He felt a curious mixture of happiness and fear.
it is curious that:
It is rather curious that you’ve never mentioned this before.
Synonyms and related words
Unusual in an interesting way
unusual
special
unique
3
curiouser and curiouser
used for saying that something is very strange and you can’t understand it; from a phrase said by Alice, the heroine of the children’s story Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
The story just gets curiouser and curiouser.
Submitted from: United Kingdom on 04/07/2016
curious
adjective
US /ˈkjʊriəs/
Other entries for this word
bi-curiousadjective
DEFINITIONS3
1
someone who is curious wants to find out about something
I didn’t mean to pry. I’m just curious. That’s all.
curious about:
Children are curious about animals and how they live.
curious to see/hear/know something:
People were curious to know why the accidenthappened.
Synonyms and related words
Asking a lot of questions and wanting to know things
curious
inquisitive
questioning
1a
used about someone’s expression
a curious look/glance:
She shot him a quick, curious look.
Synonyms and related words
Words used to describe facial expressions
absent
appealing
beatific
2
unusual and interesting
a set of curious kitchenimplements
He felt a curious mixture of happiness and fear.
it is curious that:
It is curious that you’ve never mentioned this before.
Synonyms and related words
Unusual in an interesting way
unusual
special
unique
3
curiouser and curiouser
used for saying that something is very strange and you can’t understand it; from a phrase said by Alice, the heroine of the children’s story Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll