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- pronunciation:
- kyu
ri
 s
- features:
- Word Combinations (adjective), Word Explorer, Word Parts
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adjective |
| definition 1: |
eager to learn or know.
Children are often curious about animals.As she became older, she became more curious to know who her biological parents were.You don't have to tell me; I was just curious as to how you came to your decision.- synonyms:
- inquiring, inquisitive, questioning
- antonyms:
- disinterested, incurious
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| definition 2: |
overly concerned with the affairs of others; nosy.
Don't say anything to your curious neighbors about this.- synonyms:
- inquisitive, nosy, prying
- similar words:
- meddlesome, snooping
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| definition 3: |
different from the usual and therefore interesting; odd.
I just had a curious notion. I was wondering what it would be like if humans had never learned to walk upright.What do you think Greg meant by that curious gesture?- synonyms:
- exotic, funny, novel, odd, peculiar, queer, quizzical, strange, unusual
- antonyms:
- ordinary
- similar words:
- bizarre, different, exceptional, extraordinary, interesting, oddball, offbeat, quaint, remarkable, singular, unconventional, weird
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| related words: |
anomalous, eccentric, fantastic, novel, outlandish, queer, quizzical, unusual |
adverb + (adj.)curious
endlessly, genuinely, innately, insatiably, intellectually, intensely, kind, merely, mildly, morbidly, naturally, oddly, overly, terribly
(adj.)curious
+ noun
alchemy,
amalgam,
anomaly,
blend,
bug,
button,
bystander,
calm,
coincidence,
contradiction,
creature,
crowd,
curiosity,
detachment,
fascination,
footnote,
gaze,
glance,
gunman,
hybrid,
inconsistency,
inversion,
juxtaposition,
listener,
local,
look,
mix,
mixture,
neighbor,
omission,
onlooker,
paradox,
passers-by,
phenomenon,
primate,
reversal,
sensation,
shopper,
spectator,
stare,
tourist,
twist,
villager,
visitor
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| derivations: |
curiously (adv.), curiousness (n.) |
The word curious
contains the following parts:
cur2
Latin
root
that means to care
  Example words:
accuracy, accurate, curable, curative, curator, cure, curiosity, curious, incurable, insecure, manicure, pedicure, secure, sinecure
-ous, -ious
Latin
adjective-forming suffix
that means full of, characterized by
More about this word part:
The suffix "-ous
, -ious
" attaches to Latin, Greek, and native English roots
Example words:
adventurous, ambiguous, amorous, amorphous, anadromous, androgynous, anomalous, apetalous, apocarpous, apterous, aqueous, atrocious, auspicious, avaricious, azygous, captious, carnivorous, chromous, coterminous, covetous, curious, delicious, diadromous, diaphanous, dicephalous, dioecious, disingenuous, egregious, endogenous, enormous, epigynous, euphonious, extemporaneous, ferocious, fortuitous, generous, glorious, gracious, gregarious, heterogamous, heterogeneous, homogeneous, homogenous, homologous, homopterous, hydrous, hypogynous, illustrious, impecunious, impervious, incommodious, incongruous, inconspicuous, indecorous, infamous, infelicitous, innocuous, intravenous, isogenous, isomerous, joyous, judicious, laborious, ludicrous, lustrous, magnanimous, malicious, malodorous, monoclinous, monoecious, multiparous, nauseous, perigynous, poisonous, porous, precious, quadrumanous, ramous, rebellious, spacious, subaqueous, synchronous, tubuliflorous, unanimous, valorous, vicious, wondrous, xerophilous
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