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.