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

  • (..) Easy, let's share. More. - A bit more. - Enough for tonight. Sorry to bring this back, but I'm really curious about the ear thing. So if you have red ears, it means you're turned on? That's it. Sometimes I even wake up with hard lobes. - Both of them? (..)
    2011 The Intouchables