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   curious

   /ˈkjʊərɪəs/

   adjective

   • 1. eager to know or learn something: "I began to be curious about the whereabouts of the bride and groom"
   • ▪ expressing curiosity: "a curious stare" Similar inquisitiveintriguedinterestedeager to knowdying to knowburning with curiosityagogquizzicalinquiringsearchingprobingqueryingquestioninginterrogativeperplexedpuzzledbaffledmystifiedinformal:nosynosy-parkersnoopynebbyOpposite uninterested
   • 2. strange; unusual: "a curious sensation overwhelmed her" Similar strangeoddpeculiarfunnyunusualbizarreweirdeccentricqueerunexpectedunfamiliarabnormalout of the ordinaryatypicalanomalousuntypicaldifferentout of the waysurprisingincongruousextraordinaryremarkablepuzzlingmystifyingmysteriousperplexingbafflingunaccountableinexplicableirregularsingularoffbeatunconventionalunorthodoxoutlandishoff-centreaberrantfreakfreakishdeviantuncannyeerieunnaturalout of the commonoutréuncoinformal:off the wallwackyrumwackoOpposite ordinary
   • ▪ (of books) erotic or pornographic. euphemistic

   Word Origin Middle English: from Old French curios, from Latin curiosus ‘careful’, from cura ‘care’. curious (sense 2) dates from the early 18th century.

   Derivatives

   • 1. curiousness noun

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