Curious

Acceptable For Game Play - US & UK word lists

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Eager to learn more: curious investigators; a trapdoor that made me curious.
  • adj. Unduly inquisitive; prying.
  • adj. Arousing interest because of novelty or strangeness: a curious fact.
  • adj. Archaic Accomplished with skill or ingenuity.
  • adj. Archaic Extremely careful; scrupulous.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Fastidious, particular; demanding a high standard of excellence, difficult to satisfy.
  • adj. Inquisitive; tending to ask questions, investigate, or explore.
  • adj. Prompted by curiosity.
  • adj. unusual; odd; out of the ordinary; bizarre
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Difficult to please or satisfy; solicitous to be correct; careful; scrupulous; nice; exact.
  • adj. Exhibiting care or nicety; artfully constructed; elaborate; wrought with elegance or skill.
  • adj. Careful or anxious to learn; eager for knowledge; given to research or inquiry; habitually inquisitive; prying; -- sometimes with after or of.
  • adj. Exciting attention or inquiry; awakening surprise; inviting and rewarding inquisitiveness; not simple or plain; strange; rare.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Careful; nice; accurate; fastidious; precise; exacting; minute.
  • Wrought with or requiring care and art; neat; elaborate; finished: as, a curious work.
  • Exciting curiosity or surprise; awakening inquisitive interest; rare; singular; odd: as, a curious fact.
  • Inquisitive; desirous of seeing or knowing; eager to learn; addicted to research or inquiry; sometimes, in a disparaging sense, prying: as, a man of a curious mind: followed by after, of, in, or about, or an infinitive.
  • Synonyms. Strange, Surprising, etc. See wonderful. Curious, Inquisitive, Prying. Curious and inquisitive may be used in a good or a bad sense, but inquisitive is more often, and prying is only, found in the latter. Curious expresses only the desire to know; inquisitive, the effort to find out by inquiry; prying, the effort to find out secrets by looking and working in improper ways.
  • To work curiously; elaborate.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. beyond or deviating from the usual or expected
  • adj. having curiosity aroused; eagerly interested in learning more
  • adj. eager to investigate and learn or learn more (sometimes about others' concerns)
  • Equivalent
    strange    unusual    interested    overcurious    questioning    speculative    inquisitive    wondering    nosy    prying   
    Cross Reference
    nice    odd    elaborate    curious arts   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    inquisitive    prying    careful    scrupulous    nice    exact    elaborate    strange    rare   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    furious    injurious    spurious   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    peculiar    certain    pleasant    queer