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curious

Definition

  • adjective: having a desire to learn or know more about something or someone
  • adjective: made carefully
  • synonyms: inquisitive, prying, careful

Examples

  • The story of what really happened to them that day gets 'curiouser and curiouser'. [=stranger and stranger]

  • The 'curious' [='inquisitive'] reader can find more information in the back of the book.

  • By a 'curious' coincidence, they bought a house the same day their old one burned down.

Movie quotes

  • (..) Dialogue: Marked=..,Default,NTP,!Effect,No, no, definitely not.\NNo matter. Dialogue: Marked=..,Default,NTP,!Effect,l wonder.... Dialogue: Marked=..,Default,NTP,!Effect,Curious. Dialogue: Marked=..,Default,NTP,!Effect,Very curious. Dialogue: Marked=..,Default,NTP,!Effect,Sorry, but what's curious? Dialogue: Marked=..,Default,NTP,!Effect,Just one other. Dialogue: Marked=..,Default,NTP,!Effect,lt is curious that you should\Nbe destined for this wand... Dialogue: Marked=..,Default,NTP,!Effect,...when its brother\Ngave you that scar. (..)
    2001 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone