curious

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   eager to investigate and learn or learn more (sometimes about others' concerns)

   a curious child is a teacher's delight

2. 2
   adj

   beyond or deviating from the usual or expected

   a curious hybrid accent

3. 3
   adj

   Tending to ask questions, or to want to explore or investigate; inquisitive; (with a negative connotation) nosy, prying.

   Young children are naturally curious about the world and everything in it.

4. 4
   adj

   Caused by curiosity.

   But he to ſhifte their curious requeſt, / Gan cauſen, why ſhe could not come in place; [...].

5. 5
   adj

   Leading one to ask questions about; somewhat odd, out of the ordinary, or unusual.

   The platypus is a curious creature, with fur like a mammal and a beak like a bird.

6. 6
   adj

   Clipping of bi-curious.

   It's not what I'm used to / Just wanna try you on / I'm curious for you / Caught my attention

7. 7
   adj

   Interested in entering a romantic or sexual relationship with a specified group.

   On the app I’d ultimately go with, I presented myself truthfully, as a Republican-curious woman tired of the Democrats’ hopelessness and constant pivoting during a highly charged election year.

8. 8
   adj

   Careful, fastidious, particular; (specifically) demanding a high standard of excellence, difficult to satisfy.

   Honourable even in the curiousest pointes of honour, whereout there can no disgrace nor disperagement come unto her.

Etymology

From Middle English curious, from Old French curius, from Latin cūriōsus. The English word is cognate with Italian curioso, Occitan curios, Portuguese curioso, and Spanish curioso.