curiousadjective
uk/ˈkjʊə.ri.əs/us/ˈkjʊr.i.əs/curious adjective (INTERESTED)
B1 interested in learning about people or things around you:
I was curious to know what would happen next.
Babies are curious about everything around them.
"Why did you ask?" "I was just curious."
More examples
- A crowd of curious onlookers soon gathered to see what was happening.
- The visitors were surrounded on all sides by curious children.
- Shall I show you what I bought her? I can see you're curious.
- Tell me, I'm curious, what exactly was going on in his office just then?
- "Why do you keeping asking about my neighbours?" "Oh, I'm just curious."
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Curiosity
- curiosity
- curiosity killed the cat idiom
- inquiring
- inquisitive
- inquisitorial
- meddlesome
- nose
- nosy
- nosy parker
- prurient
- quizzical
- snoot
- stick your nose into sth idiom
- stick your snoot in/into (sth) idiom
- thirsty
curious adjective (STRANGE)
mainly UK strange and unusual:
There was a curious-looking man standing outside.
A curious thing happened to me yesterday.
It's curious (that) Billy hasn't phoned when he promised he would.
Synonym
peculiar
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Strange, suspicious and unnatural
- aberrant
- abnormal
- add
- bizarre
- deviant
- funny ha-ha or funny peculiar? idiom
- kooky
- like nothing (else) on earth idiom
- like nothing on earth idiom
- not add up idiom
- nowt
- peculiarly
- rum
- sicko
- singularity
- singularly
- strange
- suss
- whacky
- whimsical
See more results »
curiously
adverb uk/ˈkjʊə.ri.əs.li/us/ˈkjʊr.i.əs.li/
B2 mainly UK
Curiously (= strangely), there didn't seem to be a bank in the town.