curious

About 15.61 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Tending to ask questions, or to want to explore or investigate; inquisitive; nosy, prying.

   Young children are naturally curious about the world and everything in it.

2. adjective Caused by curiosity.
3. adjective Leading one to ask questions about; somewhat odd, out of the ordinary, or unusual.

   The platypus is a curious creature, with fur like a mammal and a beak like a bird.

4. adjective Clipping of bi-curious.
5. adjective Interested in entering a romantic or sexual relationship with a specified group.
6. adjective Careful, fastidious, particular; demanding a high standard of excellence, difficult to satisfy.
7. adjective Carefully or artfully constructed; made with great elegance or skill.
8. adjective Containing or pertaining to trivalent curium.

Similar words

inquisitive questioning wondering overcurious interested speculative nosy prying singular nosey

Often followed by

to and about that fact thing as in way

Word family

curiouser curiousest curiousness curiousnesses